A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND followed DNS delegations. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted zone containing a large number of referrals which, when looked up and processed, would cause named to use excessive amounts of memory or crash.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | bind | 2015-01-08 11:36 | ALAS-2015-465 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |