Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-113
Advisory Release Date: 2012-08-03 15:55 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:49 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
An uninitialized data structure use flaw was found in BIND when DNSSEC validation was enabled. A remote attacker able to send a large number of queries to a DNSSEC validating BIND resolver could use this flaw to cause it to exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. (CVE-2012-3817)
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64