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amazonAmazonALAS-2016-641
HistoryJan 19, 2016 - 12:00 p.m.

Medium: bind

2016-01-1912:00:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
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7 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.958 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.4%

Issue Overview:

Specific APL RR data could cause a server to exit due to an INSIST failure in apl_42.c when performing certain string formatting operations. (CVE-2015-8704)

CVE-2015-8705 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI’s version of bind is not impacted by that CVE.

Affected Packages:

bind

Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686  
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686  
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686  
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686  
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686  
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686  
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-8704

Mitre: CVE-2015-8704

7 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.958 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.4%