ISC BIND Record Handling Lockup Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been identified in ISC BIND, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling queries for certain records and can be exploited to cause the named process to lockup.

Successful exploitation requires a combination of RDATA to be loaded into a nameserver (e.g. via cache or an authoritative zone).