Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Maxim Shudrak discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed rdata. A remote attacker could use this flaw with a specially crafted query to cause Bind to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service.
Affected
bind9 on Ubuntu 13.04 ,
Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-4854 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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