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High ELSA-2019-1145 1 CVE

Important: bind security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Jul 30, 2019 · Updated Jul 30, 2019

Summary

[32:9.11.4-17.P2]
- Fix inefective limit of TCP clients (CVE-2018-5743)

Fixed packages 17

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bind 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-chroot 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-devel 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-export-devel 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-export-libs 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-libs 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-libs-lite 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-license 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-lite-devel 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-pkcs11 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-pkcs11-devel 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-pkcs11-libs 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-pkcs11-utils 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-sdb 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-sdb-chroot 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-utils 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-bind 32:9.11.4-17.P2.el8_0

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    Limiting simultaneous TCP clients was ineffective

    By design, BIND is intended to limit the number of TCP clients that can be connected at any given time. The number of allowed connections is a tunable parameter which, if unset, defaults to a conservative value for most servers. Unfortunately, the code which …