[ GLSA 201206-01 ] BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201206-01)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: June 02, 2012
Bug(s): #347621, #356223, #368863, #374201, #374623, #390753
ID: 201206-01

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in BIND, the worst of
which allowing to cause remote Denial of Service.


Background

BIND is the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server.

Affected Packages

Package: net-dns/bind
Vulnerable: < 9.7.4_p1
Unaffected: >= 9.7.4_p1
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND. Please review the
CVE identifiers referenced below for details.


Impact

The vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service
(daemon crash) via a DNS query, to bypass intended access restrictions,
to incorrectly cache a ncache entry and a rrsig for the same type and to
incorrectly mark zone data as insecure.


Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All bind users should upgrade to the latest version: