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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-6471: bind Race condition when discarding malformed packets can cause bind to exit with assertion failure

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-6471: bind Race condition when discarding malformed packets can cause bind to exit with assertion failure

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/09/2019
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

A race condition which may occur when discarding malformed packets can result in BIND exiting due to a REQUIRE assertion failure in dispatch.c. Versions affected: BIND 9.11.0 -> 9.11.7, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4-P1, 9.14.0 -> 9.14.2. Also all releases of the BIND 9.13 development branch and version 9.15.0 of the BIND 9.15 development branch and BIND Supported Preview Edition versions 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.7-S1.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-bind

References

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