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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2012-124) (CVE-2012-4244)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2012-124) (CVE-2012-4244)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/14/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-bind
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-bind-chroot
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-bind-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-bind-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-bind-libs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-bind-sdb
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-bind-utils

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