Debian Security Advisory

DLA-285-1 bind9 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
28 Jul 2015
Affected Packages:
bind9
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5477.
More information:

Jonathan Foote discovered that the BIND DNS server does not properly handle TKEY queries. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to mount a denial of service via a specially crafted query triggering an assertion failure and causing BIND to exit.