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ELSA-2011-1496 Important: Oracle Linux bind security update

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ELSA-2011-1496 Important: Oracle Linux bind security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/29/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

query.c in ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.6.x, 9.4-ESV through 9.4-ESV-R5, 9.6-ESV through 9.6-ESV-R5, 9.7.0 through 9.7.4, 9.8.0 through 9.8.1, and 9.9.0a1 through 9.9.0b1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named exit) via unknown vectors related to recursive DNS queries, error logging, and the caching of an invalid record by the resolver.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-bind
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-bind-chroot
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-bind-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-bind-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-bind-utils

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