BIND 9 nameservers using the DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism are
vulnerable to a software defect that allows a crafted query to
crash the server with a REQUIRE assertion failure. Remote
exploitation of this defect can be achieved without extensive
effort, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) vector against
affected servers.
Security: 2892a8e2-3d68-11e2-8e01-0800273fe665
CVE-2012-5688
Feature safe: yes
Prevents a crash when queried for a record whose RDATA exceeds
65535 bytes.
Prevents a crash when validating caused by using "Bad cache" data
before it has been initialized.
ISC_QUEUE handling for recursive clients was updated to address
a race condition that could cause a memory leak. This rarely
occurred with UDP clients, but could be a significant problem
for a server handling a steady rate of TCP queries.
A condition has been corrected where improper handling of
zero-length RDATA could cause undesirable behavior, including
termination of the named process.
For more information: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00788
in BIND9
High numbers of queries with DNSSEC validation enabled can cause an
assertion failure in named, caused by using a "bad cache" data structure
before it has been initialized.
CVE: CVE-2012-3817
Posting date: 24 July, 2012
from ISC. These patched versions contain a critical bugfix:
Processing of DNS resource records where the rdata field is zero length
may cause various issues for the servers handling them.
Processing of these records may lead to unexpected outcomes. Recursive
servers may crash or disclose some portion of memory to the client.
Secondary servers may crash on restart after transferring a zone
containing these records. Master servers may corrupt zone data if the
zone option "auto-dnssec" is set to "maintain". Other unexpected
problems that are not listed here may also be encountered.
All BIND users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
the latest from ISC. These versions all contain the following:
Feature Change
* BIND now recognizes the TLSA resource record type, created to
support IETF DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities)
[RT #28989]
Bug Fix
* The locking strategy around the handling of iterative queries
has been tuned to reduce unnecessary contention in a multi-
threaded environment.
Each version also contains other critical bug fixes.
All BIND users are encouraged to upgrade to these latest versions.
stay as a -devel until it's formally released, which should be soon'ish.
BIND 9.9 includes a number of changes from BIND 9.8 and earlier releases,
including:
NXDOMAIN redirection
Improved startup and reconfiguration time, especially with large
numbers of authoritative zones
New "inline-signing" option, allows named to sign zones completely
transparently, including static zones
Many other new features, especially for DNSSEC
See the CHANGES file for more information on features.
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00592
