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MSS (Managed System Services) ran a scan on our system. It reported
this vulnerability.
CVE-2012-1667: Handling of zero length rdata can cause named to
terminate unexpectedly (dns-bind-cve-2012-1667)
ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-
P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly
handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows
remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data
corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a
crafted record.
Affected Nodes:
<deleted from this email>
Additional Information:
Running DNS serviceProduct BIND exists -- BIND 9.7.4-P1.V7R1M0Vulnerable
version of product BIND found -- BIND 9.7.4-P1.V7R1M0
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-1667


Rob Berendt

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