RHSA-2015:2656High

Red Hat Security Advisory: bind security update

Published
December 16, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2015-8000 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-8000 — bind: responses with a malformed class attribute can trigger an assertion failure in db.c

🎯 Affected products79

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • bind-chroot-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-chroot-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind-chroot-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-chroot-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-chroot-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-chroot-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-chroot-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind-debuginfo-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (5)