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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-745
Advisory Release Date: 2016-09-15 19:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-09-15 19:00 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
References:
CVE-2016-2775
Issue Overview:
It was found that the lightweight resolver could crash due to an error when asked to resolve a query name which, when combined with a search list entry, exceeds the maximum allowable length. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash lwresd or named when using the "lwres" statement in named.conf.
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.i686
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.47.amzn1.x86_64