Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-124
Advisory Release Date: 2012-09-22 21:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:57 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way BIND handled resource records with a large RDATA value. A malicious owner of a DNS domain could use this flaw to create specially-crafted DNS resource records, that would cause a recursive resolver or secondary server to exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. (CVE-2012-4244)
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.24.amzn1.x86_64