A flaw was found in the way BIND handled requests for TKEY DNS resource records. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named (functioning as an authoritative DNS server or a DNS resolver) exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS request packet.
Find out more about CVE-2015-5477 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (bind) | RHSA-2015:1514 | 2015-07-28 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (bind97) | RHSA-2015:1515 | 2015-07-28 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Update Support 6.5 (bind) | RHSA-2016:0078 | 2016-01-28 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Update Support 6.4 (bind) | RHSA-2016:0078 | 2016-01-28 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (bind) | RHSA-2015:1513 | 2015-07-29 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.6 (bind) | RHSA-2016:0079 | 2016-01-28 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (bind) | RHSA-2015:1513 | 2015-07-29 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | bind | Will not fix |
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