DNS: ISC BIND Referral CNAME and DNAME Assertion Failure Denial of Service

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability in ISC BIND9. Successful exploitation leads to denial-of-service conditions.

Extended Description

Mistaken assumptions about the ordering of records in the answer section of a response containing CNAME or DNAME resource records could lead to a situation in which named would exit with an assertion failure when processing a response in which records occurred in an unusual order. Affects BIND 9.9.9-P6, 9.9.10b1->9.9.10rc1, 9.10.4-P6, 9.10.5b1->9.10.5rc1, 9.11.0-P3, 9.11.1b1->9.11.1rc1, and 9.9.9-S8.

Affected Products

Netapp element_software

References

CVE: CVE-2017-3137

Short Name
DNS:ISC-BIND-CNAME-DNAME-DOS
Severity
Major
Recommended
True
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
DNS
Keywords
Assertion BIND CNAME CVE-2017-3137 DNAME Denial Failure ISC Referral Service and of
Release Date
05/15/2017
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
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Isc

Netapp

Debian

Redhat

CVSS Score

5.0

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