CVE-2015-8705

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2016-01-19
Bugzilla:
1299367: CVE-2015-8705 bind: crash when converting OPT resource records and ECS options to text format

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P3, when debug logging is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit, or daemon crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via (1) OPT data or (2) an ECS option.

Find out more about CVE-2015-8705 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bind Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bind Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind97 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting this issue.

Mitigation

Disable debug logging in named.

External References

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