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CVE-2015-8704

Publication date 19 January 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

apl_42.c in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P3, 9.9.x, and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed Address Prefix List (APL) record.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
bind9 15.10 wily
Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-11ubuntu1.2
15.04 vivid
Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9ubuntu0.5
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.7
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.15

Notes


jdstrand

these missed OTA9 in vivid/stable-phone-overlay and should be included in OTA9.5 via https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/stable-snapshot/+packages landed in rc-proposed in r385 on krillin: http://people.canonical.com/~lzemczak/landing-team/ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/ubuntu/krillin/385.commitlog

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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