Assertion failure in ISC BIND - CVE-2017-3136

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Assertion failure in ISC BIND - CVE-2017-3136

Published: November 28, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16152
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3136
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the servers are configured to use DNS64 and if the option "break-dnssec yes;" is in use. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted queries, if it was configured to use the DNS64 feature and other preconditions were met, trigger a server using DNS64 assertion failure and cause the service to crash.


Affected software

ISC BIND
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
Fedora
bind9 (Debian package)
bind (Alpine package)
bind99
bind
Dell EMC Unisphere Central

How to mitigate CVE-2017-3136

The vulnerability has been addressed in the versions 9.9.9-P8, 9.10.4-P8, 9.11.0-P5.

ISC BIND - addressed in versions 9.9.9-P8, 9.10.4-P8, 9.11.0-P5
bind9 (Debian package) - update to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u11
bind (Alpine package) - update to 9.10.4_p8-r0
Dell EMC Unisphere Central - update to 4.0.7
bind99 - addressed in versions 9.9.9-4.P8.fc24, 9.9.9-4.P8.fc25, 9.9.9-5.P8.fc26
bind - addressed in versions 9.10.4-3.P8.fc24, 9.10.4-4.P8.fc25, 9.11.0-7.P5.fc26

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