Security Information / 2016 / Security Information -- DSA-3511-1 bind9

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3511-1 bind9 -- security update

Date Reported:

09 Mar 2016

Affected Packages:

bind9

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1285, CVE-2016-1286.

More information:

Two vulnerabilites have been discovered in ISC's BIND DNS server.

• CVE-2016-1285

  A maliciously crafted rdnc, a way to remotely administer a BIND server, operation can cause named to crash, resulting in denial of service.

• CVE-2016-1286

  An error parsing DNAME resource records can cause named to crash, resulting in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u10.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u6.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.