Overview
A vulnerability in the BIND name server could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service against an affected system.
Description
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is a popular Domain Name System (DNS) implementation from Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). A buffer overflow error exists in the handling of the q_usedns array used by the server to track nameservers and addresses that have been queried. This vulnerability only affects BIND versions 8.4.4 and 8.4.5. |
Impact
A remote attacker may be able to cause the name server daemon to crash, thereby causing a denial of service for DNS operations. |
Solution
Apply a patch from the vendor Patches have been released in response to this issue. Please see the Systems Affected section of this document. |
Workarounds
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Vendor Information
Debian Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 25, 2005
Status
Affected
Vendor Statement
It seems that Debian stable is not vulnerable to either vulnerability
and Debian testing/unstable is only vulnerable to CAN-2005-033 (VU#327633).
The versions included are too old and the vulnerability does not seem to
be present in the older versions indeed.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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ISC Affected
Updated: January 25, 2005
Status
Affected
Vendor Statement
Workaround:
- Disable recursion and glue fetching.
Fix:
- Upgrade to BIND 8.4.6
http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/
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Apple Computer Inc. Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: March 18, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X Server 10.2, and later do not contain this issue as the DNS packages distributed are not susceptible to the vulnerability described in this advisory.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Check Point Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 24, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
Check Point products are not vulnerable to these issues.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Hitachi Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 20, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
NOT VULNERABLE
Hitachi HI-UX/WE2 is NOT Vulnerable to this issue.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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IBM Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 24, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
The AIX Operating System is not vulnerable to the issues discussed in CERT
Vulnerability Notes VU#938617, VU#327633 or any Technical Cyber Security
Alerts related to these issues.
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The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Juniper Networks Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 24, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
Juniper Networks products are not susceptible to this vulnerability
Vendor Information
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MandrakeSoft Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 31, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
Mandrakesoft has fixed VU#938617 in advisory MDKSA-2005:023. We do not
ship any products with BIND 8 so are not vulnerable to VU#327633.
Vendor Information
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NEC Corporation Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: March 18, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
* NEC products are NOT susceptible to this vulnerability.
Vendor Information
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Red Hat Inc. Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 18, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships with a BIND package, however we have verified
that the versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not vulnerable to
these issues.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. Not Affected
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 24, 2005
Status
Not Affected
Vendor Statement
Sun is not affected by either of these vulnerabilities. No version of
Solaris ships with any of the affected versions of BIND and the Sun Java
Desktop System (Linux) doesn't ship an affected version of BIND either.
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Adns Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
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BlueCat Networks Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
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Conectiva Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Cray Inc. Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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EMC Corporation Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Engarde Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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F5 Networks Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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FreeBSD Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Fujitsu Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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GNU glibc Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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IBM eServer Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: February 01, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
For information related to this and other published CERT
Advisories that may relate to the IBM eServer Platforms (xSeries,
iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries) please go to
https://app-06.www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03020.nsf/pages/securityalerts?OpenDocument&pathID=
In order to access this information you will require a Resource Link ID.
To subscribe to Resource Link go to
http://app-06.www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink
and follow the steps for registration.
All questions should be refferred to servsec@us.ibm.com.
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IBM-zSeries Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Immunix Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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InfoBlox Unknown
Notified: February 04, 2005 Updated: February 04, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Ingrian Networks Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Lucent Technologies Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Men&Mice Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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MetaSolv Software Inc. Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Microsoft Corporation Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
Vendor Information
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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MontaVista Software Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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NetBSD Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Nokia Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Nortel Networks Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Novell Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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OpenBSD Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Openwall GNU/*/Linux Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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SCO-LINUX Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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SCO-UNIX Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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SGI Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Sequent Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Sony Corporation Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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SuSE Inc. Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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TurboLinux Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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Unisys Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Wind River Systems Inc. Unknown
Notified: January 17, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2005
Status
Unknown
Vendor Statement
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
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CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Joao Damas of the Internet Systems Consortium for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Chad Dougherty based on information provided by ISC.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2005-0033 |
| Severity Metric: | 1.91 |
| Date Public: | 2005-01-25 |
| Date First Published: | 2005-01-25 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2005-03-18 16:36 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 24 |