SB2012060501 - Input validation error in ISC BIND
Published: June 5, 2012 Updated: August 4, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012060501
Severity
High
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) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1667)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted record.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00010.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134132772016230&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0717.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1110.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51096
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2486
- http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-1667
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/381699
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:089
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53772
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.536004
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00698