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bind: denial of service

Package(s):

bind

CVE #(s):

CVE-2012-5166

Created:

October 10, 2012

Updated:

November 6, 2012

Description:

From the Mandriva advisory:

A certain combination of records in the RBT could cause named to hang while populating the additional section of a response.

Alerts:

Mandriva	MDVSA-2012:162	2012-10-10
Ubuntu	USN-1601-1	2012-10-10
Mageia	MGASA-2012-0287	2012-10-11
Slackware	SSA:2012-284-01	2012-10-10
Red Hat	RHSA-2012:1364-01	2012-10-12
Red Hat	RHSA-2012:1363-01	2012-10-12
Red Hat	RHSA-2012:1365-01	2012-10-12
CentOS	CESA-2012:1363	2012-10-12
CentOS	CESA-2012:1363	2012-10-13
CentOS	CESA-2012:1364	2012-10-12
Oracle	ELSA-2012-1363	2012-10-12
Oracle	ELSA-2012-1363	2012-10-13
Oracle	ELSA-2012-1364	2012-10-13
Scientific Linux	SL-bind-20121015	2012-10-15
Scientific Linux	SL-bind-20121015	2012-10-15
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1372-1	2012-10-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-15965	2012-10-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-15965	2012-10-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-15965	2012-10-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-15965	2012-10-19
Debian	DSA-2560-1	2012-10-20
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-15981	2012-10-23
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-15981	2012-10-23
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-15981	2012-10-23
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-15981	2012-10-23
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:1390-1	2012-10-23
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:1390-2	2012-10-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:1390-3	2012-11-05
Oracle	ELSA-2012-1365	2012-11-29
Slackware	SSA:2012-341-01	2012-12-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2013:0605-1	2013-04-03

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