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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2014.0699
A defect in the prefetch feature can cause named to crash
when handling some queries.
12 May 2014
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: BIND
Publisher: ISC
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2014-3214
Original Bulletin:
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01161/0
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A defect in the prefetch feature can cause named to crash when
handling some queries.
CVE: CVE-2014-3214
Document Version: 2.0
Posting date: 8 May 2014
Program Impacted: BIND
Versions affected: 9.10.0
Severity: High
Exploitable: Remotely
Description:
A defect in the pre-fetch feature (which is enabled by default)
can cause BIND 9.10.0 to terminate with a "REQUIRE" assertion
failure if it processes queries whose answers have particular
attributes. This can be triggered as the result of normal query
processing.
Impact:
Recursive nameservers are vulnerable to this defect. Authoritative-only
servers are not at risk. On an affected nameserver, the assertion
failure, if triggered, results in an immediate exit from named,
denying service to clients attempting to query the recursive
server.
CVSS Score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
For more information on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and
to obtain your specific environmental score please visit:
http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&version=2&vector=(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Workarounds:
The problematic code is bypassed and prefetching is disabled by
setting the prefetch option to zero within the options block
in named.conf:
prefetch 0;
Active exploits:
There are no known active exploits but the crash has been
independently reported by multiple organizations.
Solution:
Upgrade to the patched release listed below. BIND software can
be downloaded from http://www.isc.org/downloads
- BIND 9 version 9.10.0-P1
Acknowledgements:
ISC would like to thank each of the individuals who independently
discovered and reported the problem.
Document Revision History:
1.0 Phase One, Advance Notification 7 May 2014
2.0 Phase Four, Public Disclosure: 8 May 2014
Related Documents:
See our BIND Security Matrix ( https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00913 )
for a complete listing of Security Vulnerabilities and versions affected.
If you'd like more information on ISC product support please visit
http://www.dns-co.com/solutions/.
Do you still have questions? Questions regarding this advisory
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If you are unable to use encrypted email, you may also report new
issues at: https://www.isc.org/mission/contact/.
Note:
ISC patches only currently supported versions.
http://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/bind-software-status/
When possible we indicate EOL versions affected.
ISC Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy: Details of our
current security advisory policy and practice can be found here:
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00861/0
This Knowledge Base article https://kb.isc.org/editArticle/AA-01161
is the complete and official security advisory document.
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