Synopsis
Important: bind security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Telco Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.
Security Fix(es):
- A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND constructed a response to a query that met certain criteria. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS request packet. (CVE-2016-2776)
- A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled packets with malformed options. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS packet. (CVE-2016-2848)
Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting CVE-2016-2776.
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted automatically.
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.7 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.2 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.6 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.6 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.6 x86_64
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RHEL for SAP HANA - Extended Update Support 6.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 6.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 6.5 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1378380 - CVE-2016-2776 bind: assertion failure in buffer.c while building responses to a specifically constructed request
- BZ - 1385450 - CVE-2016-2848 bind: assertion failure triggered by a packet with malformed options
CVEs
References
Vulmon