Bulletin Number: 00204

Title: BIND

Cross-Ref: CERT Advisory CA-2001-02

Create Date: June 26, 2001

Date: June 26, 2001

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1.  Bulletins Topics

    Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris(tm) 8, 7, 2.6,
    2.5.1, 2.5, and 2.4 (SunOS(tm) 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5.1, 5.5, and
    5.4) which relate to several vulnerabilities reported in CERT
    CA-2001-02.

    Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4
    immediately on systems running SunOS 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5.1, 5.5,
    and 5.4 with Sun's implementation of BIND.

2.  Who is Affected

    Vulnerable:                Systems running Sun's implementation of BIND
                               (in.named) on SunOS 5.8, 5.8_x86, 5.7,
                               5.7_x86, 5.6, 5.6_x86, 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86,
                               5.5, 5.5_x86, 5.4, and 5.4_x86

3.  Understanding the Vulnerability

    The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the
    Domain Name System (DNS) protocols.

    CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 describes four vulnerabilities in certain
    versions of BIND.  The four vulnerabilities are listed below along with
    the affected versions of Solaris and the version of BIND shipped with
    each version of Solaris.

    VU#196945 - ISC BIND 8 contains buffer overflow in transaction
    signature (TSIG) handling code

        Solaris 8 04/01* (BIND 8.2.2-p5)
        Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 4* (BIND 8.2.2-p5)

    VU#572183 - ISC BIND 4 contains buffer overflow in nslookupComplain()

        Solaris 2.6 (BIND 4.9.4-P1)
        Solaris 2.5.1** (BIND 4.9.3)

    VU#868916 - ISC BIND 4 contains input validation error in
                nslookupComplain()

        Solaris 2.6 (BIND 4.9.4-P1)
        Solaris 2.5.1** (BIND 4.9.3)

    VU#325431 - Queries to ISC BIND servers may disclose environment variables

        Solaris 2.4, 2.5 (BIND 4.8.3)
        Solaris 2.5.1** (BIND 4.9.3 and BIND 4.8.3)
        Solaris 2.6 (BIND 4.9.4-P1)
        Solaris 7 and 8 (BIND 8.1.2)

*  To determine if one is running Solaris 8 04/01 or Solaris 8 Maintenance
   Update 4, check the contents of the /etc/release file.

** Solaris 2.5.1 ships with BIND 4.8.3 but patch 103663-01 for SPARC and
   103664-01 for x86 upgrades BIND to 4.9.3, current revision for each
   patch is -17.

    CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 is available at:

    http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-02.html

4.  List of Patches

    The following patches are available in relation to the above problems.

    OS Version               Patch ID
    __________               _________
    SunOS 5.8                109326-04
    SunOS 5.8_x86            109327-04
    SunOS 5.7                107018-03
    SunOS 5.7_x86            107019-03
    SunOS 5.6                105755-10
    SunOS 5.6_x86            105756-10
    SunOS 5.5.1              103663-16
    SunOS 5.5.1_x86          103664-16
    SunOS 5.5                103667-12
    SunOS 5.5_x86            103668-12
    SunOS 5.4                102479-14
    SunOS 5.4_x86            102480-12
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APPENDICES

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