Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2011-24
Advisory Release Date: 2011-11-30 21:59 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 15:03 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A flaw was discovered in the way BIND handled certain DNS queries, which caused it to cache an invalid record. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send repeated queries for this invalid record, causing the resolvers to exit unexpectedly due to a failed assertion.
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-libs-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.7.3-2.11.amzn1.x86_64