Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-641
Advisory Release Date: 2016-01-19 12:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-01-19 12:00 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Specific APL RR data could cause a server to exit due to an INSIST failure in apl_42.c when performing certain string formatting operations. (CVE-2015-8704)
CVE-2015-8705 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI's version of bind is not impacted by that CVE.
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1.x86_64