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bind9: denial of service

Package(s):bind9 CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5688
Created:December 6, 2012 Updated:December 31, 2012
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain crafted queries when DNS64 was enabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1657-1 2012-12-06
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1549-01 2012-12-06
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:177 2012-12-05
CentOS CESA-2012:1549 2012-12-06
Mageia MGASA-2012-0354 2012-12-07
Oracle ELSA-2012-1549 2012-12-06
Slackware SSA:2012-341-01 2012-12-06
Scientific Linux SL-bind-20121207 2012-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1649-1 2012-12-17
Fedora FEDORA-2012-19830 2012-12-13
Fedora FEDORA-2012-19822 2012-12-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0605-1 2013-04-03
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