Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-1667 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/1ecc0d3f-ae8e-11e1-965b-0024e88a8c98.html
Insight
The following packages are affected:
bind99
bind98
bind97
bind96
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.
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2012-1667 -
CVSS Base Score: 8.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C
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