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TITLE:
BIND "RRSIG" Requests Endless Loop Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40652

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-07-17

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in BIND, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling requests
for the "RRSIG" record type where the answer is not already in the
cache, which can lead to BIND entering an endless loop generating
"RRSIG" queries to the authoritative servers.

Successful exploitation requires that the server is acting as
validating recursive server and has one or more trust anchors
configured statically and/or via DLV.

The vulnerability is reported in BIND 9.7.1 or 9.7.1-P1.

SOLUTION:
Update to BIND 9.7.1-P2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Marco Davids of SIDN.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2010-0213

OTHER REFERENCES:
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http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
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http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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