Synopsis

Important: bind security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

Security Fix(es):

• bind: BIND does not sufficiently limit the number of fetches performed when processing referrals (CVE-2020-8616)
• bind: A logic error in code which checks TSIG validity can be used to trigger an assertion failure in tsig.c (CVE-2020-8617)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1836118 - CVE-2020-8616 bind: BIND does not sufficiently limit the number of fetches performed when processing referrals
• BZ - 1836124 - CVE-2020-8617 bind: A logic error in code which checks TSIG validity can be used to trigger an assertion failure in tsig.c

CVEs

• CVE-2020-8616
• CVE-2020-8617

References