Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-138
Advisory Release Date: 2012-10-23 10:39 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 17:14 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way BIND handled certain combinations of resource records. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a recursive resolver, or an authoritative server in certain configurations, to lockup. (CVE-2012-5166)
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.25.amzn1.x86_64