bind9 vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-6471  

Bind could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

20 June 2019

bind9 vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 19.04
  • Ubuntu 18.10
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

Bind could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description

  • bind9 - Internet Domain Name Server

Details

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04
bind9 - 1:9.11.5.P1+dfsg-1ubuntu2.5
Ubuntu 18.10
bind9 - 1:9.11.4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.4
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
bind9 - 1:9.11.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.8

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References