Security fix released for BIND

Number: AV17-006
Date: 12 January 2017

Purpose

The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to the recently released security fix for BIND.

Assessment

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released an update to address vulnerabilities in BIND. Exploitation of any of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition.

Versions affected:
BIND versions 9.4.0 to 9.6-ESV-R11-W1, 9.8.5 to 9.8.8, 9.9.3 to 9.9.9-P4, 9.9.8-S1 to 9.9.8-S3, 9.9.9-S1 to 9.9.9-S6, 9.10.0 to 9.10.4-P4, and 9.11.0 to 9.11.0-P1

CVE References: CVE-2016-9131, CVE-2016-9147, CVE-2016-9444, CVE-2016-9778

Suggested action

CCIRC recommends that owner/operators test and deploy the vendor released updates or workarounds to affected platforms accordingly.

References

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01439/0    
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01440/0    
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01441/0    
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01442/0    

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