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TITLE:
ISC BIND DNS Resource Records Handling Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49338

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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https://secunia.com/advisories/49338/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=49338

RELEASE DATE:
2012-06-04

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/49338/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
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 * Impact
 * Where
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https://secunia.com/advisories/49338/

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=49338

ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
 * AUTOMATED SCANNING

https://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ISC BIND, which can be exploited
by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information or
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling DNS
resource records and can be exploited to e.g. cause recursive servers
to crash or disclose certain memory to clients via records containing
zero length rdata.

Please see the vendor's advisory for a list of affected versions.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 9.6-ESV-R7-P1, 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.3-P1, or 9.9.1-P1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Dan Luther, Level3 Communications.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-1667

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
https://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
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