APP: ISC BIND rndc Control Chanel Assertion Failure Denial Of Service
A denial-of-service vulnerability has been reported in ISC BIND. Successful exploitation could lead to denial-of-service conditions.
Extended Description
named contains a feature which allows operators to issue commands to a running server by communicating with the server process over a control channel, using a utility program such as rndc. A regression introduced in a recent feature change has created a situation under which some versions of named can be caused to exit with a REQUIRE assertion failure if they are sent a null command string. Affects BIND 9.9.9->9.9.9-P7, 9.9.10b1->9.9.10rc2, 9.10.4->9.10.4-P7, 9.10.5b1->9.10.5rc2, 9.11.0->9.11.0-P4, 9.11.1b1->9.11.1rc2, 9.9.9-S1->9.9.9-S9.
Affected Products
Netapp element_software
References
CVE: CVE-2017-3138
Short Name
APP:ISC-BIND-RNDC-DOS
Severity
Major
Recommended
True
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
APP
Keywords
Assertion BIND CVE-2017-3138 Chanel Control Denial Failure ISC Of Service rndc
Release Date
05/09/2017
Supported Platforms
srx-branch-12.3
srx-19.3
srx-branch-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.2
srx-branch-19.4
vsrx-19.4
mx-12.3
mx-19.4
vmx-19.4
mx-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.4
srx-19.4
vsrx-12.3
vmx-19.3
vsrx-19.2
srx-12.3
Sigpack Version
3590
Port
TCP/953
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors
Isc
Netapp
Debian
CVSS Score
3.5