+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #9438 +++ Versions affected: 9.10.0 -> 9.10.3-P3 Severity: High Exploitable: Remotely Description: BIND 9.10 has preliminary support for DNS cookies (or source identity tokens), a proposed mechanism designed to allow lightweight transaction security between a querying party and a nameserver. An error in the BIND code implementing support for this optional feature permits a deliberately misconstructed packet containing multiple cookie options to cause named to terminate with an INSIST assertion failure in resolver.c if DNS cookie support is enabled in the server. Only servers with DNS cookie support enabled at build time can be affected by this defect; in servers which do not have DNS cookie support selected any cookies encountered will be ignored as unknown option types. Impact: Servers which are built with DNS cookie support enabled are vulnerable to denial of service if an attacker can cause them to receive and process a response that contains multiple cookie options. References: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01351
It's worth noting that bind as built with the oe-core recipe is not really at risk: Only servers which are built with DNS cookie support (--enable-sit) are vulnerable to denial of service.
jethro patch sent.
http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?h=jethro&id=91e05c25eb221ff1dc2bde5cfaa0bea88345b1e4 in jethro