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USN-3172-1: Bind vulnerabilities

USN-3172-1: Bind vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Description

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed responses to an ANY query. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9131)

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed responses to an ANY query. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9147)

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed DS record responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9444)

Affected Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells are vulnerable, including:
    • 3151.x versions prior to 3151.7
    • 3233.x versions prior to 3233.10
    • 3263.x versions prior to 3263.15
  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v1.45.0

Mitigation

OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:

  • The Cloud Foundry team recommends upgrading to the following BOSH stemcells:
    • Upgrade all lower versions of 3151.x to version 3151.7
    • Upgrade all lower versions of 3233.x to version 3233.10
    • Upgrade all lower versions of 3263.x to version 3263.15
  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v1.45.0 or later versions

References

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