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Cent OS: CVE-2013-2266: CESA-2013:0689 (bind)

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Cent OS: CVE-2013-2266: CESA-2013:0689 (bind)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/28/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

libdns in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P2, 9.8.5 before 9.8.5b2, 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P2, and 9.9.3 before 9.9.3b2 on UNIX platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a named process.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-bind
  • centos-upgrade-bind-chroot
  • centos-upgrade-bind-devel
  • centos-upgrade-bind-libs
  • centos-upgrade-bind-sdb
  • centos-upgrade-bind-utils
  • centos-upgrade-bind97
  • centos-upgrade-bind97-chroot
  • centos-upgrade-bind97-devel
  • centos-upgrade-bind97-libs
  • centos-upgrade-bind97-utils

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