Bug 192192

Numerous vulnerabilities have been reported in various Domain Name System (DNS)
implementations.  These vulnerabilities were discovered using the PROTOS DNS
Test Tool developed by Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG). The
results of the tests are described in NISCC Vulnerability Advisory 144154/NISCC/DNS.

We have limited information on how BIND is affected:
http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060425-00312.pdf?lang=en

OpenWall Linux said :Although there's limited information on these
vulnerabilities available, we believe that the BIND 9 package in Owl is affected
to the same (very limited) extent that is documented in the statement from the
ISC found in the PDF version of the NISCC Vulnerability Advisory
144154/NISCC/DNS and that the DNS resolver in glibc is not affected at all.
Assuming that the ISC's description of the issue is correct, we agree with the
ISC's assessment of this issue as minor enough to not require updates for
current and past releases. Instead, a fix is expected to be included in a future
release of BIND - and we are going to similarly include that in a future release
of Owl. The ISC's description of the issue implies that for the attack to work
the DNS server must be configured to use TSIG-based authentication of
transactions and the attacker must in fact authenticate successfully. Thus, it
appears that the attack may only be carried out via a related previously
compromised DNS server and only if both servers are configured to use TSIG-based
authentication. The impact of a successful attack is limited to denial of the
DNS service."

Therefore we'll set this to low severity for Red Hat Enterprise Linux pending
any future updates.  This would also affect v3 and v2.1.