Unbound: Denial of service

Background Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Unbound. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via a speciall...

Multiple broadband routers may behave as open resolvers

Overview Multiple broadband routers contain an issue where they may behave as open resolvers. A device that runs as a DNS cache server, which responds to any recursive DNS queries that are received is referred to as an open resolver. Multiple broadband routers may contain an issue where they may...

JVN#62507275: Multiple broadband routers may behave as open resolvers

A device that runs as a DNS cache server, which responds to any recursive DNS queries that are received is referred to as an open resolver. Multiple broadband routers may contain an issue where they may behave as open resolvers. Impact The device may be used in a DNS amplification attack and...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-84)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled zero length resource data records. A malicious owner of a DNS domain could use this flaw to create specially crafted DNS resource records that would cause a recursive resolver or secondary server to crash or, possibly, disclose portions of its memory...

[Resolver v1.0.9] The reverse/bruteforce DNS lookup

Resolver is a windows based tool which designed to preform a reverse DNS Lookup for a given IP address or for a range of IP’s in order to find its PTR. Updated to Version 1.0.3 added dns records brute force. Resolver features: Resolve a Single IP Resolve an IP Range Resolve IP’s provided in a tex...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: bind-9.9.3-4.P2.fc18

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 ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: bind-9.9.3-5.P2.fc19

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 ...

PowerDNS Recursor 3.3.x / 3.4.x / 3.5 RC1 Cache Update Policy Deleted Domain Name Resolving Weakness

According to its self-reported version number, the version of the PowerDNS Recursor service listening on the remote host is 3.3.x, 3.4.x, or 3.5 RC1. It is, therefore, affected by a ghost domain names vulnerability in the resolver service due to overwriting cached name servers and TTL values in N...

Oracle Linux 3 : ruby (ELSA-2008-0896)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0896 : Updated ruby packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for...

Oracle Linux 4 : perl-Net-DNS (ELSA-2007-0675)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:0675 : An updated perl-Net-DNS package that corrects a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Net::DNS is a collection of Perl modules...

Oracle Linux 4 : bind (ELSA-2011-1496)

"From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:1496 : Updated bind packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whic...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: bind-9.9.3-3.P1.fc19

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 ...

Millions of WordPress sites exploitable for DDoS Attacks using Pingback mechanism

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives for these attacks political , criminal, or social makes every merchant or organization with an online presence a potential target. Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS...

Millions of WordPress sites exploitable for DDoS Attacks using Pingback mechanism

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives for these attacks political , criminal, or social makes every merchant or organization with an online presence a potential target. Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS...

Fedora Update for bind FEDORA-2013-4533

Check for the Version of bind OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for bind FEDORA-2013-4533 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: bind-9.9.2-7.P2.fc17

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 ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: bind-9.9.2-10.P2.fc18

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 ...

Stable Channel Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 26 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 26.0.1410.43 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame contains number of new items including: "Ask Google for suggestions" spell checking feature improvements e.g. grammar and homonym checking Desktop...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 7110)

This collective update for the GNU C library glibc provides the following fixes : - Fix strtod integer/buffer overflows. bnc775690, CVE-2012-3480 - Fix vfprintf handling of many format specifiers. bnc770891, CVE-2012-3404 / CVE-2012-3405 / CVE-2012-3406 - Fix pthreadcondtimedwait stack unwinding...

AIX 6.1 TL 5 : bind9 (IV11742)

An as-yet unidentified network event caused BIND 9 resolvers to cache an invalid record, subsequent queries for which could crash the resolvers with an assertion failure. Furthermore, AIX BIND 9.4.1 is affected by the following three security vulnerabilities: CVE-2010-0382 - ISC BIND...