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High ALAS2-2018-954 1 CVE

Important: bind security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 20, 2018 · Updated Feb 21, 2018

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-3145: A use-after-free flaw leading to denial of service was found in the way BIND internally handled cleanup operations on upstream recursion fetch contexts. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to make named, acting as a DNSSEC validating resolver, exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS request. 1534812: CVE-2017-3145 bind: Improper fetch cleanup sequencing in the resolver can cause named to crash

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 bind 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-chroot 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-debuginfo 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-devel 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-libs 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-libs-lite 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-license 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-lite-devel 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-devel 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-libs 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-utils 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-sdb 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-sdb-chroot 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-utils 32:9.9.4-51.amzn2.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2017-3145 EPSS 28%

    Improper fetch cleanup sequencing in the resolver can cause named to crash

    BIND was improperly sequencing cleanup operations on upstream recursion fetch contexts, leading in some cases to a use-after-free error that can trigger an assertion failure and crash in named. Affects BIND 9.0.0 to 9.8.x, 9.9.0 to 9.9.11, 9.10.0 to 9.10.6, 9…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-3145.html