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ELSA-2012-2028 Important: Oracle Linux bind security update

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ELSA-2012-2028 Important: Oracle Linux bind security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)

Published

06/05/2012

Created

07/25/2018

Added

08/07/2012

Modified

04/11/2019

Description

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted record.

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

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2012-1667
APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-2
53772
381699
CVE - 2012-1667
DSA-2486
Category I
V0035032
2012-A-0189
RHSA-2012:0717
RHSA-2012:1110
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2012-August/002974.html

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