# MA-489.072015: MyCERT Advisory - Security Updates for BIND

**Date:** 09 Jul 2015  
**Source:** https://www.mycert.org.my/portal/advisory?id=MA-489.072015  
**Advisory ID:** MA-489.072015

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#### **1.0 Introduction**
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates to address vulnerability in BIND. Users and administrators are encouraged to apply the necessary updates.
**2.0 Impact**
These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to   cause a validating resolver to query a zone containing specifically constructed contents can cause that resolver to fail an assertion and terminate due to a defect in validation code.
**3.0 Affected Products**
The detail lists of the BIND products updates are as below:
- BIND 9-version 9.9.7-P1
- BIND 9-version 9.10.2-P2
**4.0 Recommendation**
MyCERT highly recommended users of these applications to upgrade to the latest version of the affected products. The following updates are available:
4.1 Upgrade to the patched release current version of BIND:
- BIND 9 version 9.9.7-P1
<https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01270/81/BIND-9.9.7-P1-Release-Notes.html>
- BIND 9 version 9.10.2-P2
<https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01269/81/BIND-9.10.2-P2-Release-Notes.html>
- Latest release of BIND can be found at:
<http://www.isc.org/downloads/>
Generally, MyCERT advises the users of this software to be updated with the latest security announcements by the vendor and follow best practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.
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**5.0 References**
- ISC Releases Security Updates for BIND
<https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2015/07/08/ISC-Releases-Security-Updates>
- ISC Knowledge Base: AA-01267
<https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01267/0/CVE-2015-4620:-Specially-Constructed-Zone-Data-Can-Cause-a-Resolver-to-Crash-when-Validating.html>