Critical: bind

Issue Overview:

An error in the parsing of incoming responses allows some records with an incorrect class to be be accepted by BIND instead of being rejected as malformed. This can trigger a REQUIRE assertion failure when those records are subsequently cached. Intentional exploitation of this condition is possible and could be used as a denial-of-service vector against servers performing recursive queries. (CVE-2015-8000)

CVE-2015-8461 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI’s version of bind is not impacted by that CVE.

Affected Packages:

bind

Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.i686  
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.i686  
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.i686  
    bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.i686  
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.i686  
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.i686  
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.42.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-8000

Mitre: CVE-2015-8000