Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bind  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-BIND-5846370
  • published21 Aug 2023
  • disclosed29 Apr 2021

Introduced: 29 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-25214  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind package and not the bind package as distributed by Chainguard.

In BIND 9.8.5 -> 9.8.8, 9.9.3 -> 9.11.29, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.13, and versions BIND 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.29-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 -> 9.16.13-S1 of BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, as well as release versions 9.17.0 -> 9.17.11 of the BIND 9.17 development branch, when a vulnerable version of named receives a malformed IXFR triggering the flaw described above, the named process will terminate due to a failed assertion the next time the transferred secondary zone is refreshed.