Red Hat Security Advisory: bind security update
Version 9 of ISC BIND, prior to version 9.2.1, contained a denial of service (DoS) attack vulnerability. Various versions of the ISC BIND resolver libraries are vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.
describes (2)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2002-0651US | high7.5 | — | ||
Buffer overflow in the DNS resolver code used in libc, glibc, and libbind, as derived from ISC BIND, allows remote malicious DNS servers to cause a denial of service and possibly e… | ||||
| CVE-2002-0400US | medium5.0 | — | ||
ISC BIND 9 before 9.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (shutdown) via a malformed DNS packet that triggers an error condition that is not properly handled whe… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/5100external
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-15.htmlexternal
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-19.htmlexternal
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/803539external
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002:119self
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#importantexternal
- Canonical URLself
remediations (2)
- FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002:119 - FixedRed Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002:119
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