IBM Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in BIND affect AIX (CVE-2016-1285, CVE-2016-1286)

There are vulnerabilities in BIND that impact AIX.

CVE(s): CVE-2016-1285, CVE-2016-1286

Affected product(s) and affected version(s):


AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
VIOS 2.2.x

The following fileset levels are vulnerable:

key_fileset = aix

Fileset Lower Level Upper Level KEY
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bos.net.tcp.client 5.3.12.0 5.3.12.10 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.server 5.3.12.0 5.3.12.6 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client 6.1.9.0 6.1.9.102 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.server 6.1.9.0 6.1.9.101 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client 7.1.3.0 7.1.3.47 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.server 7.1.3.0 7.1.3.47 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client 7.1.4.0 7.1.4.1 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.server 7.1.4.0 7.1.4.1 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.bind 7.2.0.0 7.2.0.0 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.bind_utils 7.2.0.0 7.2.0.1 key_w_fs

Note: to find out whether the affected filesets are installed
on your systems, refer to the lslpp command found in AIX user's guide.

Example: lslpp -L | grep -i bos.net.tcp.client

Refer to the following reference URLs for remediation and additional vulnerability details:

Source Bulletin: http://http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/bind_advisory12.asc

X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/1WhPh1c
http://ift.tt/1TnICjP



from IBM Product Security Incident Response Team http://ift.tt/28Lj5RC