#VU16152 Assertion failure in ISC BIND - CVE-2017-3136
Published: November 28, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16152
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3136
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
ISC BIND
ISC BIND
Software vendor:
ISC
ISC
Description
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.
Remediation
The vulnerability has been addressed in the versions 9.9.9-P8, 9.10.4-P8, 9.11.0-P5.