Number: AV16-012
Date: 20 January 2016
Purpose
The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to the recently released security fixes for BIND.
Assessment
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security fixes to address multiple vulnerabilities in BIND. A remote attacker can exploit those vulnerabilities to potentially cause a denial-of-service condition.
Versions affected: BIND 9.3.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.8-P2, 9.9.3-S1->9.9.8-S3, 9.10.0->9.10.3-P2
CVE References: CVE-2015-8704, CVE-2015-8705
Suggested Action
CCIRC recommends that owner/operators test and deploy the vendor released updates or workarounds to affected platforms accordingly.
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