Data Handling in ISC BIND - CVE-2015-5477

 

Data Handling in ISC BIND - CVE-2015-5477

Published: July 29, 2015 / Updated: July 27, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31954
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-2015-5477
CWE-ID: CWE-19
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.

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.7-P2 and 9.10.x before 9.10.2-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit) via TKEY queries.


Affected software

ISC BIND
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
Fedora
bind (Alpine package)
bind
bind99

How to mitigate CVE-2015-5477

Install update from vendor's website.

bind (Alpine package) - update to 9.9.7_p2-r0
bind - addressed in versions 9.9.6-10.P1.fc21, 9.10.2-4.P3.fc22
bind99 - update to 9.9.7-6.P2.fc22

External References

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