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Red Hat: CVE-2017-3139: Important: bind security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-3139: Important: bind security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/08/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/09/2017
Modified
05/02/2022

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-bind
  • redhat-upgrade-bind-chroot
  • redhat-upgrade-bind-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-bind-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-bind-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-bind-sdb
  • redhat-upgrade-bind-utils

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