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 error when handling queries for certain records and can be exploited to cause the named process to lockup.

Successful exploitation requires a combination of RDATA to be loaded into a nameserver (e.g. via cache or an authoritative zone).

Please see the vendor's advisory for a list of affected versions.

Solution
Update to a fixed release (please see the vendor's advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Jake Montgomery, Dyn, Inc.

Original Advisory
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00801

Alternate/detailed remediation
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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