Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2012-177 - BIND 9 nameservers using the DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism are vulnerable to a software defect that allows a crafted query to crash the server with a REQUIRE assertion failure. Remote exploitation of this defect can be achieved without extensive effort, resulting in a denial-of-service vector against affected servers. The updated packages have been upgraded to bind 9.8.4-P1 which is not vulnerable to this issue.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2012:177
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : bind
Date : December 5, 2012
Affected: 2011.
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Problem Description:
A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in bind:
BIND 9 nameservers using the DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism are
vulnerable to a software defect that allows a crafted query to crash
the server with a REQUIRE assertion failure. Remote exploitation
of this defect can be achieved without extensive effort, resulting
in a denial-of-service (DoS) vector against affected servers
(CVE-2012-5688).
The updated packages have been upgraded to bind 9.8.4-P1 which is
not vulnerable to this issue.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5688
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00828
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.8.4-P1/CHANGES
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2011:
66bdbc7b626996ea2ce4771aa9504cf7 2011/i586/bind-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
f3ff266312bc9c89c1b70c8bc2a68ce5 2011/i586/bind-devel-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
3d1801ced41b296442954edfe226200f 2011/i586/bind-doc-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
5260c5359ba15554d18658200337b21e 2011/i586/bind-utils-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
19e315c74dd39bc3daed386f9bafda0b 2011/SRPMS/bind-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2011/X86_64:
98d25a8e80c2ae965e108bd47d327331 2011/x86_64/bind-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
24b3b7e32fe30433bbc3ebc6da14252b 2011/x86_64/bind-devel-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
09b0579ab3053e306453e1d9a77de0f9 2011/x86_64/bind-doc-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
8d375b75c5f340bf71b633672367eb84 2011/x86_64/bind-utils-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
19e315c74dd39bc3daed386f9bafda0b 2011/SRPMS/bind-9.8.4-0.0.P1.0.1.src.rpm
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