-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-15:17.bind Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: BIND remote denial of service vulnerability Category: contrib Module: bind Announced: 2015-07-28 Credits: ISC Affects: FreeBSD 8.x and FreeBSD 9.x. Corrected: 2015-07-28 19:58:54 UTC (stable/9, 9.3-STABLE) 2015-07-28 19:59:22 UTC (releng/9.3, 9.3-RELEASE-p21) 2015-07-28 19:58:54 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-STABLE) 2015-07-28 19:59:22 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RELEASE-p35) CVE Name: CVE-2015-5477 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background BIND 9 is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. The named(8) daemon is an Internet Domain Name Server. II. Problem Description An error in the handling of TKEY queries can be exploited by an attacker for use as a denial-of-service vector, as a constructed packet can use the defect to trigger a REQUIRE assertion failure, causing BIND to exit. III. Impact A remote attacker can trigger a crash of a name server. Both recursive and authoritative servers are affected, and the exposure can not be mitigated by either ACLs or configuration options limiting or denying service because the exploitable code occurs early in the packet handling, before checks enforcing those boundaries. IV. Workaround No workaround is available, but systems that are not running BIND are not vulnerable. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. The named service has to be restarted after the update. A reboot is recommended but not required. 2) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install The named service has to be restarted after the update. A reboot is recommended but not required. 3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-15:17/bind.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-15:17/bind.patch.asc # gpg --verify bind.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as described in . Restart the applicable daemons, or reboot the system. VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/8/ r285977 releng/8.4/ r285980 stable/9/ r285977 releng/9.3/ r285980 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.1.6 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVt+FdAAoJEO1n7NZdz2rnmAQQAK66bHEYirTecgswG+eiePfU lcX46GdLU/OQ/3MHpmc6XQKz9kpJ+Inh8K8IvAJ1SXH41zk/xOtUgqbkUcgkGrS1 gBVKUC8SF82ll/1FUlORoJc+g+TQgax00Il/GweRVoL0RpU9S/YSnc6OLc0nWzBq osweYaHBNRL6lBmUtAHYu1tyvGvHLlfTNk6NCtUxtWeXKe+urYFx4ViJKCU8dJ+U F26nQb/3vH93WOEaNjSDHYWypl9qtous5hpOtXr76ofhID67EyOKmPPEC5+6jP/6 wkdMu7loVewI5K7ZF+zaNxr8CQESurCRkMX3qJSBNCfSw55sdcfKl4BO65SCxLH7 vXoh+B+Wbof2n3xAcEJNufOdiRQfTxlP1UMWIy00wvdB+VcOCDdD7TUB1kksxzpy aXxePRdKLjvkPDiWy17BBpxq8JIfy+41a+N7Fm/hDgUJOYGDAMr27WJLx8MHzY3k +B014IVvTnHkf0yo5ue5raTpgUr0TVCfwD3eqJOM9iUuOI8vj9h44FpP6R8KNyQA mVI/wikVJfYAgmAkHqqRVEHeA8aWJsVNkmrKLHFDkLDdw6umr7oOHfXQo1hk7k7V +2JEa09kp2AYNGYZkiFG/7jiCZ9GLCvAzKW1v1g8fRsBl+QA1PjW0Rg7HcRmZiwM VfNsARSWl2y/t8Gnrfgx =40iD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----