Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in ISC BIND, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
ISC BIND DNS64 REQUIRE Assertion Failure Denial of Service
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51484
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-12-05
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ISC BIND, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the DNS64 IPv6
transition mechanism when handling certain queries, which can be
exploited to trigger a REQUIRE assertion and crash the server via a
specially crafted DNS query.
Successful exploitation requires that DNS64 is turned on.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 9.8.0 through 9.8.4 and
9.9.0 through 9.9.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 9.8.4-P1 or 9.9.2-P1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits BlueCat Networks.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00828
https://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-5688
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