bind, caching security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:0459 Updated bind packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score...

bind: malformed packet sent to rndc can trigger assertion failure

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain control channel input. A remote attacker able to send a malformed packet to the control channel could use this flaw to cause named to crash...

bind: malformed signature records for DNAME records can trigger assertion failure

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed signature records for DNAME records. By sending a specially crafted query, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause named to crash...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: bind security update

Updated bind packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

bind: malformed packet sent to rndc can trigger assertion failure

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain control channel input. A remote attacker able to send a malformed packet to the control channel could use this flaw to cause named to crash...

bind: malformed signature records for DNAME records can trigger assertion failure

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed signature records for DNAME records. By sending a specially crafted query, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause named to crash...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: bind99-9.9.8-4.P4.fc23

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. This package set contains only export version of BIND libraries, that are used for building ISC DHCP...

SUSE: Security Advisory for bind (SUSE-SU-2016:0780-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2016:0759-1)

This update for bind fixes the following issues : Fix two assertion failures that can lead to a remote denial of service attack : - CVE-2016-1285: An error when parsing signature records for DNAME can lead to named exiting due to an assertion failure. bsc970072 - CVE-2016-1286: An error when...

SUSE-SU-2016:0780-1 Security update for bind

This update for bind fixes the following issues: Fix two assertion failures that can lead to a remote denial of service attack: CVE-2016-1285: An error when parsing signature records for DNAME can lead to named exiting due to an assertion failure. bsc970072 CVE-2016-1286: An error when parsing...

SUSE-SU-2016:0759-1 Security update for bind

This update for bind fixes the following issues: Fix two assertion failures that can lead to a remote denial of service attack: CVE-2016-1285: An error when parsing signature records for DNAME can lead to named exiting due to an assertion failure. bsc970072 CVE-2016-1286: An error when parsing...

Fedora 23 : bind-9.10.3-12.P4.fc23 (2016-b593e84223)

New version fixing CVE-2016-1285 CVE-2016-1286 CVE-2016-2088 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0107)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: bind-9.10.3-12.P4.fc23

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

bind: denial of service

CVE-2016-2088 denial of service Allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit via a malformed packet with more than one cookie option. - CVE-2016-1286 denial of service Allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-665)

A defect in control channel input handling was discovered which can cause named to exit due to an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c when a malformed packet is sent to named's control channel. If control channel input is accepted from the network limited to localhost by default, an...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-665)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability

In ISC BIND before 9.10.3-P4, an error parsing input received by the rndc control channel can cause an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c CVE-2016-1285. In ISC BIND before 9.10.3-P4, a problem parsing resource record signatures for DNAME resource records can lead to an assertion failure in...

MGASA-2016-0107 Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability

In ISC BIND before 9.10.3-P4, an error parsing input received by the rndc control channel can cause an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c CVE-2016-1285. In ISC BIND before 9.10.3-P4, a problem parsing resource record signatures for DNAME resource records can lead to an assertion failure in...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.9.8P4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues: Fix resolver assertion failure due to...