ASA-2019-00369 – ISC BIND: A race condition when discarding malformed packets can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure


Allele Security Alert

ASA-2019-00369

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00369, CVE-2019-6471

Title

A race condition when discarding malformed packets can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure

Vendor(s)

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)

Product(s)

ISC BIND

Affected version(s)

ISC BIND 9.11.0 -> 9.11.7, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4-P1, 9.14.0 -> 9.14.2. Also all releases of the BIND 9.13 development branch and version 9.15.0 of the BIND 9.15 development branch. BIND Supported Preview Edition versions 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.7-S1.

Fixed version(s)

ISC BIND version 9.11.8
ISC BIND version 9.12.4-P2
ISC BIND version 9.14.3
ISC BIND version 9.15.1
ISC BIND version 9.11.8-S1

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

A race condition which may occur when discarding malformed packets can result in BIND exiting due to a REQUIRE assertion failure in dispatch.c.

An attacker who can cause a resolver to perform queries which will be answered by a server which responds with deliberately malformed answers can cause named to exit, denying service to clients.

Technical details

Unknown

Workaround

Unknown

Credits

CERN

Reference(s)

CVE-2019-6471: A race condition when discarding malformed packets can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2019-6471

CVE-2019-6471
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6471

CVE-2019-6471
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6471

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Last modified: June 23, 2019

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