Does Red Hat provide a fix for BIND Response Rate Limiting security vulnerability?

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Issue

  • A security alert was issued regarding DoS attacks against DNS servers.

  • ISC is has a release candidate for BIND 9.9.4 which has some response rate limiting features added to the named daemon. When will Red Hat support this security feature which is very much desired by USDA?

  • Is CVE-2012-5166 vulnerable to RHEL5 and RHEL6?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  • Bind (named)

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