ISC Security Advisory: A Specially Crafted Resource Record Could Cause named to Terminate

Michael McNally mcnally at isc.org
Wed Sep 12 16:57:17 UTC 2012


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CVE-2012-4244: A specially crafted Resource Record could cause named
               to terminate

A nameserver can be caused to exit with a REQUIRE exception if it
can be induced to load a specially crafted resource record.

CVE: CVE-2012-4244
Document Version:          2.0
Posting date: 12 September 2012
Program Impacted: BIND
Versions affected:
   9.0.x -> 9.6.x, 9.4-ESV->9.4-ESV-R5-P1, 9.6-ESV->9.6-ESV-R7-P2,
   9.7.0->9.7.6-P2, 9.8.0->9.8.3-P2, 9.9.0->9.9.1-P2
Severity: Critical
Exploitable: Remotely

Description:

   If a record with RDATA in excess of 65535 bytes is loaded into
   a nameserver, a subsequent query for that record will cause named
   to exit with an assertion failure.

   Please Note: Versions of BIND 9.4 and 9.5 are also affected, but
   these branches are beyond their "end of life" (EOL) and no longer
   receive testing or security fixes from ISC. For current information
   on which versions are actively supported, please see
   http://www.isc.org/software/bind/versions.

Impact:

   This vulnerability can be exploited remotely against recursive
   servers by inducing them to query for records provided by an
   authoritative server. It affects authoritative servers if a zone
   containing this type of resource record is loaded from file or
   provided via zone transfer.

CVSS Score:  7.8

CVSS Equation:  (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

For more information on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and
to obtain your specific environmental score please visit:
http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&adv&version=2&vector=(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Workarounds:  None are known at this time.

Active exploits:  No known active exploits.

Solution: 

   Upgrade to the patched version or new release most closely related
   to your current version of BIND.

   The patched versions (-P3) of BIND can be downloaded from
   http://www.isc.org/downloads/all.  The new release versions will
   be available within the next week.

   BIND 9 version 9.7.7, 9.7.6-P3
   BIND 9 version 9.6-ESV-R8, 9.6-ESV-R7-P3
   BIND 9 version 9.8.4, 9.8.3-P3
   BIND 9 version 9.9.2, 9.9.1-P3


Document Revision History:

   1.0 - 4 Sept., 2012  Advance Notification to Phase 1
   1.1 - 6 Sept. 2012 Corrected error in Description (65535 bytes)
   1.2 - 11 Sept. 2012 Phase 2 & 3 notified
   2.0 - 12 Sept. 2012 Phase 4 - Public Released

Related Documents:

   See our BIND Security Matrix for a complete listing of Security
   Vulnerabilities and versions affected.

   If you'd like more information on our Forum or product support
   please visit www.isc.org/software/guild or www.isc.org/support.

Do you still have questions?  Questions regarding this advisory
should go to security-officer at isc.org

Note: ISC patches only currently supported versions. When possible
we indicate EOL versions affected.

ISC Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy:  Details of our current
security advisory policy and practice can be found here:
https://www.isc.org/security-vulnerability-disclosure-policy

The Knowledge Base article https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00778 is
the complete and official security advisory document.  There is
also a summary article located on our website and linking to here:
https://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-4244

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