Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-758
Advisory Release Date: 2016-10-20 11:32 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-10-20 20:26 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
CVE-2016-2848 bind: assertion failure triggered by a packet with malformed options
A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled packets with malformed options. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS packet.
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.i686
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.49.amzn1.x86_64