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HP-UX: CVE-2018-5743: HPESBUX03927 rev.1 - HP-UX BIND, Remote Denial of Service (DoS) and Remote Unauthorized Data Modification

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HP-UX: CVE-2018-5743: HPESBUX03927 rev.1 - HP-UX BIND, Remote Denial of Service (DoS) and Remote Unauthorized Data Modification

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/10/2019
Created
09/17/2019
Added
09/16/2019
Modified
11/04/2019

Description

By design, BIND is intended to limit the number of TCP clients that can be connected at any given time. The number of allowed connections is a tunable parameter which, if unset, defaults to a conservative value for most servers. Unfortunately, the code which was intended to limit the number of simultaneous connections contained an error which could be exploited to grow the number of simultaneous connections beyond this limit. Versions affected: BIND 9.9.0 -> 9.10.8-P1, 9.11.0 -> 9.11.6, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4, 9.14.0. BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition versions 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.5-S3, and 9.11.5-S5. Versions 9.13.0 -> 9.13.7 of the 9.13 development branch are also affected. Versions prior to BIND 9.9.0 have not been evaluated for vulnerability to CVE-2018-5743.

Solution(s)

  • hpux-update-nameservice

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