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BIND Validator Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA14008
Release Date: 2005-01-26
Popularity: 10,881 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:ISC BIND 9.3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-0034


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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the validator within the "authvalidated()" function and may result in an internal consistency test failing when processing a specially crafted DNS datagram.

Successful exploitation causes named to exit, but requires that DNSSEC validation is enabled (not default setting).

The vulnerability affects BIND 9.3.0.

Solution:
Update to version 9.3.1.
http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
ISC:
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php

Other References:
US-CERT VU#938617:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/938617


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