[security-alerts] FW: [SA23904] ISC BIND Unspecified Denial of Service Vulnerability

["Kazennov, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Kazennov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> TITLE:
> ISC BIND Unspecified Denial of Service Vulnerability
> 
> SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
> SA23904
> 
> VERIFY ADVISORY:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/23904/
> 
> CRITICAL:
> Less critical
> 
> IMPACT:
> DoS
> 
> WHERE:
> From remote
> 
> SOFTWARE:
> ISC BIND 9.3.x
> http://secunia.com/product/4298/
> ISC BIND 9.2.x
> http://secunia.com/product/75/
> 
> DESCRIPTION:
> A vulnerability has been reported in ISC BIND, which can be exploited
> by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
> 
> The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which may
> cause the named daemon to dereference a freed fetch context.
> 
> Successful exploitation crashes the named daemon.
> 
> NOTE: A potential security issue related to the validation of type
> ANY responses has also been reported.
> 
> SOLUTION:
> Update to version 9.2.8 or 9.3.4.
> 
> The vulnerability has also been fixed in version 9.4.0rc2.
> 
> PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
> Reported by the vendor.
> 
> ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
> http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.2.8
> http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.3.4
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-announce&m=116968519321296&w=2
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