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bind: denial of service

Package(s):bind CVE #(s):CVE-2013-2266
Created:March 29, 2013 Updated:April 5, 2013
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

A denial of service flaw was found in the libdns library. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted DNS query to named that, when processed, would cause named to use an excessive amount of memory, or possibly crash. (CVE-2013-2266)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0689-01 2013-03-28
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0690-01 2013-03-28
CentOS CESA-2013:0689 2013-03-29
CentOS CESA-2013:0690 2013-03-28
Oracle ELSA-2013-0689 2013-03-28
Oracle ELSA-2013-0690 2013-03-29
Scientific Linux SL-bind-20130329 2013-03-29
Scientific Linux SL-bind-20130329 2013-03-29
Ubuntu USN-1783-1 2013-03-29
Debian DSA-2656-1 2013-03-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0605-1 2013-04-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0619-1 2013-04-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0620-1 2013-04-04
Mageia MGASA-2013-0105 2013-04-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0625-1 2013-04-04

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