ISC BIND recursive INSIST denial of service
| bind-recursive-insist-dos (28744) |  Low Risk |
Description:
ISC BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by improper handling of recursive queries. A remote attacker could send multiple recursive queries causing an INSIST failure resulting in a denial of service.
Platforms Affected:
- Apple, Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Apple, Mac OS X 10.4.9
- Apple, Mac OS X Server 10.3.9
- Apple, Mac OS X Server 10.4.9
- Canonical, Ubuntu 5.04
- Canonical, Ubuntu 5.10
- Canonical, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Debian, Debian Linux 3.1
- Gentoo, Linux
- ISC, BIND 9.2.0
- ISC, BIND 9.2.1
- ISC, BIND 9.2.2
- ISC, BIND 9.2.3
- ISC, BIND 9.2.4
- ISC, BIND 9.2.5
- ISC, BIND 9.2.6
- ISC, BIND 9.3
- ISC, BIND 9.3.0
- ISC, BIND 9.3.1
- ISC, BIND 9.3.2
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2006
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 2006 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Multi Network Firewall 2.0
- NetBSD, NetBSD 3.0
- NetBSD, NetBSD 3.0.1
- NetBSD, NetBSD 3.0.2
- NetBSD, NetBSD 4.0 beta
- NetBSD, NetBSD CURRENT
- OpenPKG, OpenPKG 2.5
- OpenPKG, OpenPKG CURRENT
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 Desktop
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 F...
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 Server
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 10 Server x64 Ed
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 7 Server
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux 8 Server
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux FUJI
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Home
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Multimedia
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Personal
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0 Hosting Ed
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0 Workgroup Ed
- Turbolinux, Turbolinux Appliance Server 2.0
Remedy:
For Apple Mac OS X:
Apply Apple Security Update 2007-005, available from the Apple Web site. See References.
Upgrade to the latest version of BIND (9.2.6-P1 or later) or (9.3.2-P1 or later), available from the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) Web site. See References.
For Debian GNU/Linux:
Refer to DSA-1172-1 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For Gentoo Linux:
Refer to Gentoo Linux Security Announcement GLSA 200609-11 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For NetBSD:
Refer to NetBSD Security Advisory 2006-022 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For other distributions:
Contact your vendor for upgrade or patch information.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- Apple Security Update 2007-005, About Security Update 2007-005 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530.
- Apple Web site, Apple security updates at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798.
- Internet Software Consortium (ISC) Web site, BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) page at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/.
- NetBSD-SA2006-022, BIND recursive query and SIG query processing at http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-022.txt.asc.
- NISCC Vulnerability Advisory 172003/NISCC/BIND9, Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities in the BIND 9 Software at http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060905-00590.pdf?lang=en.
- BID-19859: ISC BIND Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-4096: BIND before 9.2.6-P1 and 9.3.x before 9.3.2-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of recursive queries, which cause an INSIST failure when the response is received after the recursion queue is empty.
- DSA-1172: bind9 -- programming error
- GLSA-200609-11: BIND: Denial of Service
- MDKSA-2006:163: Updated bind packages fix DoS vulnerabilities
- OpenPKG-SA-2006.019: BIND
- SA21752: ISC BIND Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- SA24950: HP Insight Management Agents SSL Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1016794: BIND Query Processing Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service
- SUSE-SR:2006:024: SUSE Security Summary Report
Reported:
Sep 05, 2006
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