Assertion failure in ISC BIND - CVE-2017-3137

CSH
CYBERSECURITY HELP
Sign In REGISTER
 
Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU7227

Assertion failure in ISC BIND - CVE-2017-3137

Published: June 28, 2017 / Updated: November 28, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7227
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-2017-3137
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing query response containing CNAME or DNAME resource records in an unusual order in BIND. A remote attacker can trigger assertion failure and crash BIND application.


Affected software

ISC BIND
Arch Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
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
Fedora
Opensuse
bind9 (Debian package)
bind (Alpine package)
bind99
bind
Dell EMC Unisphere Central

How to mitigate CVE-2017-3137

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

External References

Related Security Bulletins