DSA-3703-1 bind9 -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-8864  

Tony Finch and Marco Davids reported an assertion failure in BIND, a DNS server implementation, which causes the server process to terminate. This denial-of-service vulnerability is related to a defect in the processing of responses with DNAME records from authoritative servers and primarily affects recursive resolvers. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u8. We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3703-1 bind9 -- security update

Date Reported:
01 Nov 2016
Affected Packages:
bind9
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 842858.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-8864.
More information:

Tony Finch and Marco Davids reported an assertion failure in BIND, a DNS server implementation, which causes the server process to terminate. This denial-of-service vulnerability is related to a defect in the processing of responses with DNAME records from authoritative servers and primarily affects recursive resolvers.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.