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Ubuntu: USN-4929-1 (CVE-2021-25214): Bind vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4929-1 (CVE-2021-25214): Bind vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/29/2021
Created
05/04/2021
Added
04/30/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In BIND 9.8.5 -> 9.8.8, 9.9.3 -> 9.11.29, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.13, and versions BIND 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.29-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 -> 9.16.13-S1 of BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, as well as release versions 9.17.0 -> 9.17.11 of the BIND 9.17 development branch, when a vulnerable version of named receives a malformed IXFR triggering the flaw described above, the named process will terminate due to a failed assertion the next time the transferred secondary zone is refreshed.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bind9

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