Reachable Assertion in ISC BIND - CVE-2019-6467

 

Reachable Assertion in ISC BIND - CVE-2019-6467

Published: October 9, 2019 / Updated: July 24, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31827
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6467
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

A programming error in the nxdomain-redirect feature can cause an assertion failure in query.c if the alternate namespace used by nxdomain-redirect is a descendant of a zone that is served locally. The most likely scenario where this might occur is if the server, in addition to performing NXDOMAIN redirection for recursive clients, is also serving a local copy of the root zone or using mirroring to provide the root zone, although other configurations are also possible. Versions affected: BIND 9.12.0-> 9.12.4, 9.14.0. Also affects all releases in the 9.13 development branch.


Affected software

ISC BIND
bind (Alpine package)
Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery

How to mitigate CVE-2019-6467

Install update from vendor's website.

bind (Alpine package) - update to 9.11.6_p1-r0
Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery - update to 18.1.1.2-8

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