CVE-2015-5722

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-09-02
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed certain malformed DNSSEC keys. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted DNS query (for example, a query requiring a response from a zone containing a deliberately malformed key) that would cause named functioning as a validating resolver to crash.

See more information about CVE-2015-5722 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (bind)	ELSA-2015-1706	2015-09-03
Oracle Linux version 5 (bind97)	ELSA-2015-1707	2015-09-03
Oracle Linux version 6 (bind)	ELSA-2015-1705	2015-09-03
Oracle Linux version 7 (bind)	ELSA-2015-1705	2015-09-03
Oracle VM version 3.2 (bind)	OVMSA-2016-0055	2016-06-20
Oracle VM version 3.3 (bind)	OVMSA-2015-0119	2015-09-03