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USN-1783-1: Bind vulnerability

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USN-1783-1: Bind vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/28/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

libdns in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P2, 9.8.5 before 9.8.5b2, 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P2, and 9.9.3 before 9.9.3b2 on UNIX platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a named process.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bind9
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdns64
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdns69
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdns81

References

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