Advisories » MGASA-2016-0365

Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 04 Nov 2016
Modification date: 04 Nov 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-8864

Description

Tony Finch and Marco Davids discovered that Bind incorrectly handled
certain responses containing a DNAME answer. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial
of service (CVE-2016-8864).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19698
• https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01434
• https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3119-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8864

SRPMS

5/core

• bind-9.10.3.P4-1.2.mga5