Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-768
Advisory Release Date: 2016-11-18 12:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-11-18 12:30 Pacific
A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled responses containing a DNAME answer. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response.
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
i686:
bind-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.47.rc1.51.amzn1.x86_64