SB2015121608 - Race condition in ISC BIND
Published: December 16, 2015 Updated: July 24, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015121608
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8461)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Race condition in resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.9.8 before 9.9.8-P2 and 9.10.3 before 9.10.3-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via unspecified vectors.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174145.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174252.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79347
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034419
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2015&m=slackware-security.539966
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01319
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01438