Six Security Flaws Fixed in BIND 9.9.2

A new version of the BIND DNS server software is available, fixing six security vulnerabilities and a long list of other bugs. BIND 9.9.2-P1 is mainly a security update and most of the issues it fixes are crashes and not remote code execution flaws. BIND is the overwhelming leader in market share...

dns/bind9* -- servers using DNS64 can be crashed by a crafted query

ISC reports: BIND 9 nameservers using the DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism are vulnerable to a software defect that allows a crafted query to crash the server with a REQUIRE assertion failure. Remote exploitation of this defect can be achieved without extensive effort, resulting in a...

CVE-2012-5671

Heap-based buffer overflow in the dkimeximquerydnstxt function in dkim.c in Exim 4.70 through 4.80, when DKIM support is enabled and aclsmtpconnect and aclsmtprcpt are not set to "warn control = dkimdisableverify," allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an email from a malicious DN...

Heap overflow

Heap-based buffer overflow in the dkimeximquerydnstxt function in dkim.c in Exim 4.70 through 4.80, when DKIM support is enabled and aclsmtpconnect and aclsmtprcpt are not set to "warn control = dkimdisableverify," allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an email from a malicious DN...

CVE-2012-5671

Heap-based buffer overflow in the dkimeximquerydnstxt function in dkim.c in Exim 4.70 through 4.80, when DKIM support is enabled and aclsmtpconnect and aclsmtprcpt are not set to "warn control = dkimdisableverify," allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an email from a malicious DN...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2560-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 16 Update: dnsperf-2.0.0.0-2.fc16

This is dnsperf, a collection of DNS server performance testing tools. For more information, see the dnsperf1 and resperf1 man pages...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: bind-9.8.4-2.fc16

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 ...

Fedora Update for dnsperf FEDORA-2012-15981

Check for the Version of dnsperf OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for dnsperf FEDORA-2012-15981 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Debian DSA-2560-1 : bind9 - denial of service

It was discovered that BIND, a DNS server, hangs while constructing the additional section of a DNS reply, when certain combinations of resource records are present. This vulnerability affects both recursive and authoritative servers. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2560-1] bind9 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2560-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer October 20, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-2560-1 bind9 - denial of service

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: dnsperf-2.0.0.0-2.fc17

This is dnsperf, a collection of DNS server performance testing tools. For more information, see the dnsperf1 and resperf1 man pages...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: bind-9.9.2-2.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 ...

RedHat Update for bind RHSA-2012:1363-01

Check for the Version of bind OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for bind RHSA-2012:1363-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms o...

bind: specially crafted resource record causes named to exit

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P3, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P3, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P3, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and named daemon exit via a query for a long resource record...

Fedora Update for bind FEDORA-2012-14030

Check for the Version of bind OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for bind FEDORA-2012-14030 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms o...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: bind-9.8.3-4.P3.fc16

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 ...

Fedora 16 : cloud-init-0.6.3-0.5.bzr532.fc16 (2012-14189)

This update changes the URL that cloud-init uses as a fallback for instance metadata when http://169.254.169.254/ is not reachable from http://instance-data:8773/ to http://instance-data.:8773/ . It also fixes two systemd-related bugs. Note that the former will require DNS server reconfiguration ...

Fedora 17 : cloud-init-0.6.3-0.5.bzr532.fc17 (2012-14121)

This update changes the URL that cloud-init uses as a fallback for instance metadata when http://169.254.169.254/ is not reachable from http://instance-data:8773/ to http://instance-data.:8773/ . It also fixes two systemd-related bugs. Note that the former will require DNS server reconfiguration ...