BIND TCP Memory Leak Lets Remote Users Deny Service
|
|
SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1027297 |
|
SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1027297
|
|
CVE Reference:
CVE-2012-3868
(Links to External Site)
|
Date: Jul 25 2012
|
Impact:
Denial of service via network
|
Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
|
Version(s): 9.9.0 through 9.9.1-P1
|
Description:
A vulnerability was reported in BIND. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can generate high TCP query loads to trigger a memory leak in the processing of empty queues and adversely affect system performance.
On systems that kill out-of-memory processes, this can trigger an automatic shutdown of named.
Kevin Sheehan of Infoblox, Inc., and Anand Buddhdev from the RIPE NCC reported this vulnerability.
|
Impact:
A remote user can cause performance degradation on the target system.
|
Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (9.9.1-P2).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00730
|
Vendor URL: kb.isc.org/article/AA-00730 (Links to External Site)
|
Cause:
Resource error
|
Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
|
|
Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
|
Source Message Contents
|
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:54:13 +0000
Subject: ISC BIND
|
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00730
CVE-2012-3868
|
|
