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Medium ALAS2-2019-1187 1 CVE

Moderate: bind security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Apr 4, 2019 · Updated Apr 17, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5741: To provide fine-grained controls over the ability to use Dynamic DNS (DDNS) to update records in a zone, BIND 9 provides a feature called update-policy. Various rules can be configured to limit the types of updates that can be performed by a client, depending on the key used when sending the update request. Unfortunately, some rule types were not initially documented, and when documentation for them was added to the Administrator Reference Manual (ARM) in change #3112, the language that was added to the ARM at that time incorrectly described the behavior of two rule types, krb5-subdomain and ms-subdomain. This incorrect documentation could mislead operators into believing that policies they had configured were more restrictive than they actually were. This affects BIND versions prior to BIND 9.11.5 and BIND 9.12.3. 1631131: CVE-2018-5741 bind: Incorrect documentation of krb5-subdomain and ms-subdomain update policies

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 bind 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-chroot 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-debuginfo 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-devel 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-libs 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-libs-lite 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-license 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-lite-devel 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-devel 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-libs 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-utils 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-sdb 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-sdb-chroot 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-utils 32:9.9.4-73.amzn2.1.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.5

    Update policies krb5-subdomain and ms-subdomain do not enforce controls promised in their documentation

    To provide fine-grained controls over the ability to use Dynamic DNS (DDNS) to update records in a zone, BIND 9 provides a feature called update-policy. Various rules can be configured to limit the types of updates that can be performed by a client, depending…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-5741.html