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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3379 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-08-10
Updated:
2020-08-10

RHSA-2020:3379 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: bind security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 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 6.5 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

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5

SRPM
bind-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.src.rpm SHA-256: 83237129c8944caac88f1d8e85a0eb83b68a7ad8e4468e6b6da8d628513a0f3e
x86_64
bind-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b522130ed9d2491ed252f01fabc818b352c9f711788b9e92f0ef5945b2239b35
bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8a9370b581aea5e3488067c28f8d555b4dbb75477575c0cf5943d0848db764b1
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.i686.rpm SHA-256: d45c2d6ef57f6a7662c72e3c01986dc40e05af0b7478b17a12adac821312119e
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.i686.rpm SHA-256: d45c2d6ef57f6a7662c72e3c01986dc40e05af0b7478b17a12adac821312119e
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5199960850ce6fad69732a345a010e02f37d9b08f7c3abd95cb32a4408c36dae
bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5199960850ce6fad69732a345a010e02f37d9b08f7c3abd95cb32a4408c36dae
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 618a6d3abd04a0912165c4f026929245db5efe15a2b5c6ea32764b190311884d
bind-devel-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 59b3fff51cc348b27a9bb1e67d207e3bbf43bf14ff66d6eb5c4b0b3a83b8043c
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.i686.rpm SHA-256: ed285fb561fe0892aee99cfbe67cd906f59aa04b32b62db6dd5ebcc0fe51924b
bind-libs-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e4a28fdc613b8df70e36db055055eb23390947df858edf3daab68e08b526dcd4
bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9bdbd15b35fec8be9cd17d222457119de61eef5e4a09618c0eab1a7a2dc2211f
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 07a60163bed5308c99a2fdf8bede4fe81be91c49ed50667a98bdefac5d487dfa

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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