Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in bind:
ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted record (CVE-2012-1667).
The updated packages have been upgraded to bind 9.7.6-P1 and 9.8.3-P1 which is not vulnerable to this issue.
Affected
bind on Mandriva Linux 2011.0,
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2,
Mandriva Linux 2010.1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-1667 -
CVSS Base Score: 8.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C
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