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TITLE:
ISC BIND Unspecified Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23904

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23904/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
ISC BIND 9.3.x
http://secunia.com/product/4298/
ISC BIND 9.2.x
http://secunia.com/product/75/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ISC BIND, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which may
cause the named daemon to dereference a freed fetch context.

Successful exploitation crashes the named daemon.

NOTE: A potential security issue related to the validation of type
ANY responses has also been reported.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 9.2.8 or 9.3.4.

The vulnerability has also been fixed in version 9.4.0rc2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.2.8
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.3.4
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-announce&m=116968519321296&w=2

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