Bug/Vulnerability in `Dig' in latest dnsutils/bind9

Mukund Sivaraman muks at isc.org
Tue Oct 28 11:41:51 UTC 2014


Hi Joshua

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:30:45PM +1100, Joshua Rogers wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is really severe enough for a CVE-ID or not, but
> let me know about it anyways.

This crashes out almost immediately after next is assigned -1, by
dereferencing *(-1) which is likely not mapped on any platform. So I
don't think it's a severe or exploitable bug. The crash is the only
effect.

A fix is in review now.

		Mukund
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