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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-3145: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2018-954)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-3145: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2018-954)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/17/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

BIND was improperly sequencing cleanup operations on upstream recursion fetch contexts, leading in some cases to a use-after-free error that can trigger an assertion failure and crash in named. Affects BIND 9.0.0 to 9.8.x, 9.9.0 to 9.9.11, 9.10.0 to 9.10.6, 9.11.0 to 9.11.2, 9.9.3-S1 to 9.9.11-S1, 9.10.5-S1 to 9.10.6-S1, 9.12.0a1 to 9.12.0rc1.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-bind

References

  • ALAS-2018-954
  • DSA-4089
  • CVE-2017-3145
  • USN-3535-1
  • USN-3535-2

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