Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-858
Advisory Release Date: 2017-07-20 01:20 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-07-24 23:16 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
Security Fix(es): A flaw was found in the way BIND handled TSIG authentication for dynamic updates. A remote attacker able to communicate with an authoritative BIND server could use this flaw to manipulate the contents of a zone, by forging a valid TSIG or SIG(0) signature for a dynamic update request. A flaw was found in the way BIND handled TSIG authentication of AXFR requests. A remote attacker, able to communicate with an authoritative BIND server, could use this flaw to view the entire contents of a zone by sending a specially constructed request packet. (CVE-2017-3142, CVE-2017-3143)
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
i686:
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.i686
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.i686
bind-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.62.rc1.56.amzn1.x86_64