ISC BIND Recursive Nameservers Denial of Service Vulnerability
Last Update Date:
13 May 2014
Release Date:
12 May 2014
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RISK: Medium Risk
TYPE: Servers - Other Servers
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 within the prefetch feature when processing certain queries, which can be exploited to trigger an assertion failure and cause a crash.
Note: This only affects recursive nameservers.
Impact
- Denial of Service
System / Technologies affected
- ISC BIND 9.10.0
Solutions
Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.
- Update to version 9.10.0-P1.
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