bind9: denial of service [LWN.net]

Package(s):

bind9

CVE #(s):

CVE-2012-3817

Created:

July 26, 2012

Updated:

September 10, 2012

Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

Einar Lonn discovered that Bind incorrectly initialized the failing-query cache. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Alerts:

Ubuntu	USN-1518-1	2012-07-26
Mandriva	MDVSA-2012:119	2012-07-29
Red Hat	RHSA-2012:1122-01	2012-07-31
Red Hat	RHSA-2012:1123-01	2012-07-31
Debian	DSA-2517-1	2012-07-30
CentOS	CESA-2012:1122	2012-07-31
CentOS	CESA-2012:1123	2012-07-31
CentOS	CESA-2012:1123	2012-07-31
Scientific Linux	SL-bind-20120731	2012-07-31
Scientific Linux	SL-bind-20120731	2012-07-31
Oracle	ELSA-2012-1123	2012-07-31
Oracle	ELSA-2012-1123	2012-07-31
Oracle	ELSA-2012-1122	2012-07-31
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0969-1	2012-08-08
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0971-1	2012-08-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-11153	2012-08-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-11146	2012-08-09
Mageia	MGASA-2012-0257	2012-09-07
Mageia	MGASA-2012-0258	2012-09-07
Gentoo	201209-04	2012-09-23
Slackware	SSA:2012-341-01	2012-12-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2013:0605-1	2013-04-03

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