CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
95.1%
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way BIND handled certain combinations of resource records. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a recursive resolver, or an authoritative server in certain configurations, to lockup. (CVE-2012-5166)
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
Red Hat: CVE-2012-5166
Mitre: CVE-2012-5166