RHSA-2015:2658High

Red Hat Security Advisory: bind97 security update

Published
December 16, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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

🎯 Affected products52

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-chroot-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-chroot-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-chroot-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-chroot-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-chroot-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-chroot-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-chroot-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-debuginfo-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-devel-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • bind97-devel-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • bind97-devel-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
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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)