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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2016-641) (CVE-2015-8704)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2016-641) (CVE-2015-8704)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/20/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/21/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

apl_42.c in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P3 and 9.9.x and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed Address Prefix List (APL) 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

References

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