Security Bulletin: IBM Netezza Host Management is vulnerable to a BIND 9 utility issue (CVE-2015-5722)

Summary

A denial of service vulnerability in Red Hat Linux Bind 9 utility affects Netezza Host Management.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5722 DESCRIPTION: A denial of service (DOS) security vulnerability in the Red Hat Linux BIND 9 utility has been discovered. This utility is installed by default on Red Hat Linux distributions. The DOS attack can be exploited remotely against a BIND server that is performing validation on DNSSEC-signed records.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106089 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Netezza Host Management 5.3.9.0 and previous releases

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Netezza Host Management

| 5.3.10.0| Link to Fix Central
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Workarounds and Mitigations

None