[Secure-testing-team] Bug#772610: bind9: CVE-2014-8500: A Defect in Delegation Handling Can Be Exploited to Crash BIND

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: bind9
Version: 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream
Control: fixed -1 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u3


Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for bind9.

CVE-2014-8500[0]:
A Defect in Delegation Handling Can Be Exploited to Crash BIND

For wheezy-security this was already fixed with DSA-3094-1[1]. See
also [2] for further details.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8500
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00284.html
[2] https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/0

Regards,
Salvatore