Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3319-1 bind9 -- security update

Date Reported:
28 Jul 2015
Affected Packages:
bind9
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 793903.
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.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.