CVE-2011-2465

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2011-07-05
Bugzilla:
718971: CVE-2011-2465 bind: Remote Crash with Certain RPZ Configurations

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Unspecified vulnerability in ISC BIND 9 9.8.0, 9.8.0-P1, 9.8.0-P2, and 9.8.1b1, when recursion is enabled and the Response Policy Zone (RPZ) contains DNAME or certain CNAME records, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (named daemon crash) via an unspecified query.

Find out more about CVE-2011-2465 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6 as they did not include support for Response Policy Zones (RPZ).

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 7.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bind Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 bind Not affected

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