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USN-2837-1 bind9 vulnerability

USN-2837-1 bind9 vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

bind9

Versions Affected

  • Ubuntu 14.04

Description

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled responses with malformed class attributes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

The Cloud Foundry project released a new Cloud Foundry rootfs, cflinuxfs2 v.1.23.0, that has the patches.

Affected Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.23.0.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.23.0 or later versions.

Credit

N/A

References

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Cloud Foundry Foundation Security Team, AUTHOR

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