Bug 1171919 (CVE-2014-8680)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8680 bind: flaws in GeoIP leading to a denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jrusnack, psimerda, thozza, vchepkov, vdanen, vonsch, yozone
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Fixed In Version:	bind 9.10.1-P1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-12-09 00:04:46 UTC

BIND 9.10.1-P1 fixes the following flaws:

""
Multiple errors have been identified in the GeoIP features added in BIND 9.10.  Two are capable of crashing BIND -- triggering either can cause named to exit with an assertion failure, resulting in a denial of service condition.  A third defect is also corrected, which could have caused GeoIP databases to not be loaded properly if their location was changed while BIND was running.

Only servers built to include GeoIP functionality are affected.
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The affected versions (9.10.0 to 9.10.1) are not shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora.

External References:

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01217/74/CVE-2014-8680%3A-Defects-in-GeoIP-features-can-cause-BIND-to-crash.html

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-12-09 00:05:14 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of bind or bind97 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.