Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 15.04 : bind9 vulnerabilities (USN-2693-1)
High Nessus Plugin ID 85081
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
Description
Jonathan Foote discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain TKEY queries. A remote attacker could use this issue with a specially crafted packet to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5477)
Pories Ediansyah discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain configurations involving DNS64. A remote attacker could use this issue with a specially crafted query to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
(CVE-2012-5689).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected bind9 package.