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CVE-2015-4620

Public on 2015-07-08
Modified on 2015-07-22
Description

A flaw was found in the way BIND performed DNSSEC validation. An attacker able to make BIND (functioning as a DNS resolver with DNSSEC validation enabled) resolve a name in an attacker-controlled domain could cause named to exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 bind 2015-07-22 10:00 ALAS-2015-566

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
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