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A flaw was found in the way BIND handles dynamic update message
packets containing the 'ANY' record type. A remote attacker could use
this flaw to send a specially crafted dynamic update packet that could
cause named to exit with an assertion failure. (CVE-2009-0696)
Note: even if named is not configured for dynamic updates, receiving
such a specially crafted dynamic update packet could still cause named
to exit unexpectedly.
This update also fixes the following bug :
- when running on a system receiving a large number of
(greater than 4,000) DNS requests per second, the named
DNS nameserver became unresponsive, and the named
service had to be restarted in order for it to continue
serving requests. This was caused by a deadlock
occurring between two threads that led to the inability
of named to continue to service requests. This deadlock
has been resolved with these updated packages so that
named no longer becomes unresponsive under heavy load.
(BZ#512668)
After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted
automatically.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
| ID | CVSS | Summary | Last (major) update | Published |
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