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F5 Networks: K17181 (CVE-2015-5722): BIND vulnerability CVE-2015-5722

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F5 Networks: K17181 (CVE-2015-5722): BIND vulnerability CVE-2015-5722

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/04/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
10/13/2017

Description

buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.7-P3 and 9.10.x before 9.10.2-P4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) by creating a zone containing a malformed DNSSEC key and issuing a query for a name in that zone.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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