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CVE-2021-25214

A broken inbound incremental zone update (IXFR) can cause named to terminate unexpectedly

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Summary

In BIND 9.8.5 -> 9.8.8, 9.9.3 -> 9.11.29, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.13, and versions BIND 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.29-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 -> 9.16.13-S1 of BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, as well as release versions 9.17.0 -> 9.17.11 of the BIND 9.17 development branch, when a vulnerable version of named receives a malformed IXFR triggering the flaw described above, the named process will terminate due to a failed assertion the next time the transferred secondary zone is refreshed.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • ISC BIND9

    Open Source Branch 9.8 9.8.5 through 9.8.8, Open Source Branches 9.9 through 9.11 9.9.3 through versions before 9.11.30, Open Source Branches 9.12 through 9.16 9.12.0 through versions before 9.16.14, Supported Preview Branches 9.9-S through 9.11-S 9.9.3-S1 through versions before 9.11.30-S1, Supported Preview Branch 9.16-S 9.16.8-S1 through versions before 9.16.14-S1, Development Branch 9.17 9.17.0 through versiosn before 9.17.12

References 11

kb.isc.org

openwall.com

debian.org

lists.debian.org

lists.fedoraproject.org

security.netapp.com

cert-portal.siemens.com