SB2019042607 - Reachable Assertion in bind (Alpine package) 



SB2019042607 - Reachable Assertion in bind (Alpine package)

Published: April 26, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019042607
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6467)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

A programming error in the nxdomain-redirect feature can cause an assertion failure in query.c if the alternate namespace used by nxdomain-redirect is a descendant of a zone that is served locally. The most likely scenario where this might occur is if the server, in addition to performing NXDOMAIN redirection for recursive clients, is also serving a local copy of the root zone or using mirroring to provide the root zone, although other configurations are also possible. Versions affected: BIND 9.12.0-> 9.12.4, 9.14.0. Also affects all releases in the 9.13 development branch.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.