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Debian: DSA-1803-1 Critical: nsd Denial of Service Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2009
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Debian Security Notice DSA-1820-1 pertains to a vulnerability in OpenSSH which results in a potential information leak.
Ilja van Sprundel discovered that a buffer overflow in NSD, an authoritative name service daemon, allowed to crash the server by sending a crafted packet, creating a denial of serv...

Summary

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.6-1+etch1 of the nsd package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.7-1.1+lenny1 of the nsd package and version 3.0.7-3.lenny2
of the nsd3 package.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.7-3 for nsd; nsd3 will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your nsd or nsd3 package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.




Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 923 cd9d37244bfa45fb346d99c8d2bab5a0
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