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Ubuntu: USN-4149-1 (CVE-2019-16866): Unbound vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4149-1 (CVE-2019-16866): Unbound vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/03/2019
Created
10/12/2019
Added
10/09/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Unbound before 1.9.4 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to trigger a crash via a crafted NOTIFY query. The source IP address of the query must match an access-control rule.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libunbound8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-unbound

References

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