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USN-2837-1 bind9 vulnerability


Severity

Medium

Vendor

bind9

Versions Affected

  • Ubuntu 14.04

Description

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled responses with malformed class attributes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

The Cloud Foundry project released a new Cloud Foundry rootfs, cflinuxfs2 v.1.23.0, that has the patches.

Pivotal is releasing an updated version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry Suite which references this patched CF rootfs.

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.23.0.
  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.6.9.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.23.0 or later versions.
  • Pivotal recommends that customers upgrade to 1.6.9 or later versions of Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime.

Credit

N/A

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