IBM Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in BIND impact AIX (CVE-2016-8864, CVE-2016-2848)

There are two vulnerabilities in BIND that impact AIX.

CVE(s): CVE-2016-8864, CVE-2016-2848

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

 AIX 6.1, 7.1
The following fileset levels are vulnerable:
key_fileset = aix
Fileset Lower Level Upper Level KEY ---------------------------------------------------------
bos.net.tcp.client 6.1.9.0 6.1.9.200 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client 7.1.3.0 7.1.3.48 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client 7.1.4.0 7.1.4.30 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://ift.tt/2ibVR9z
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/2fJTJJo
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/2gwtW3a

from IBM Product Security Incident Response Team http://ift.tt/2h6MGcO