Impact
remote denial of service
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Two security problems were fixed in the ISC BIND nameserver version 9.3.4, which are addressed by this advisory:
CVE-2007-0493: If recursion is enabled, a remote attacker can dereference a freed fetch context causing the daemon to abort / crash.
CVE-2007-0494: By sending specific DNS query responses with multiple RRSETS attackers could cause BIND to exit abnormally.
Updates for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server were released on Friday 26th of January, updates for SUSE Linux and openSUSE were released on Monday 29th of January.
Affected
bind on SUSE LINUX 10.1, openSUSE 10.2, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, SUSE SLES 9, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux POS 9, SUSE SLED 10, SUSE SLES 10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-0493, CVE-2007-0494 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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