MGASA-2021-0560

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    MGASA-2021-0560

    Published: 19 Dec 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-25219

    Summary: Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability: Kishore Kumar Kothapalli discovered that the lame server cache in BIND, a DNS server implementation, can be abused by an attacker to significantly degrade resolver performance, resulting in denial of service (large delays for responses for client queries and DNS timeouts on client hosts) (CVE-2021-25219).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0560.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29427, https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2021-25219, https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4994

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bind

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/bind?arch=source&distro=mageia-8

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -9.11.36-1.1.mga8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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