Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-176
Advisory Release Date: 2013-04-04 11:09 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 22:48 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A denial of service flaw was found in the libdns library. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted DNS query to named that, when processed, would cause named to use an excessive amount of memory, or possibly crash. (CVE-2013-2266)
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.i686
bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.i686
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.i686
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.i686
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.i686
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.i686
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.i686
src:
bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.src
x86_64:
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.x86_64
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.29.amzn1.x86_64