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CVE-2015-5722

Public on 2015-09-02
Modified on 2015-09-02
Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed certain malformed DNSSEC keys. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted DNS query (for example, a query requiring a response from a zone containing a deliberately malformed key) that would cause named functioning as a validating resolver to crash.

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 2015-09-02 12:00 ALAS-2015-594

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