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FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)
Category: contrib
Module: bind
Announced: 2012-11-22
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD before 9.1-RC2.
Corrected: 2012-11-22 23:15:38 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.4-STABLE)
2012-11-22 22:52:15 UTC (RELENG_7_4, 7.4-RELEASE-p11)
2012-10-11 13:25:09 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.3-STABLE)
2012-11-22 22:52:15 UTC (RELENG_8_3, 8.3-RELEASE-p5)
2012-10-10 19:50:15 UTC (RELENG_9, 9.1-PRERELEASE)
2012-11-22 22:52:15 UTC (RELENG_9_0, 9.0-RELEASE-p5)
2012-11-22 22:52:15 UTC (RELENG_9_1, 9.1-RC1-p1)
2012-11-22 22:52:15 UTC (RELENG_9_1, 9.1-RC2-p1)
2012-11-22 22:52:15 UTC (RELENG_9_1, 9.1-RC3-p1)
CVE Name: CVE-2012-4244, CVE-2012-5166
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following sections, please visit <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
BIND 9 is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols.
The named(8) daemon is an Internet Domain Name Server.
II. Problem Description
The BIND daemon would crash when a query is made on a resource record
with RDATA that exceeds 65535 bytes.
The BIND daemon would lock up when a query is made on specific
combinations of RDATA.
III. Impact
A remote attacker can query a resolving name server to retrieve a record
whose RDATA is known to be larger than 65535 bytes, thereby causing the
resolving server to crash via an assertion failure in named.
An attacker who is in a position to add a record with RDATA larger than
65535 bytes to an authoritative name server can cause that server to
crash by later querying for that record.
The attacker can also cause the server to lock up with specific
combinations of RDATA.
IV. Workaround
No workaround is available, but systems not running the BIND name
server are not affected.
V. Solution
Perform one of the following:
1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 7-STABLE, 8-STABLE, or 9-STABLE,
or to the RELENG_7_4, RELENG_8_3, or RELENG_9_0 security branch dated
after the correction date.
2) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to FreeBSD 7.4,
8.3, and 9.0 systems.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-12:06/bind.patch
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-12:06/bind.patch.asc
b) Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as
described in <URL:http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>.
3) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch:
Systems running 7.4-RELEASE, 8.3-RELEASE, 9.0-RELEASE, or 9.1-RC1 on
the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8)
utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
4) Install and run BIND from the Ports Collection after the correction
date. The following versions and newer versions of BIND installed from
the Ports Collection are not affected by this vulnerability:
bind96-9.6.3.1.ESV.R7.4
bind97-9.7.6.4
bind98-9.8.3.4
bind99-9.9.1.4
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the revision numbers of each file that was
corrected in FreeBSD.
Subversion:
Branch/path Revision
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
stable/7/ r243418
releng/7.4/ r243417
stable/8/ r241443
releng/8.3/ r243417
stable/9/ r241415
releng/9.0/ r243417
releng/9.1/ r243417
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
VII. References
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00778
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00801
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4244
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5166
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:06.bind.asc
