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Debian 5.0 DSA-1831-1 High Severity Djbdns Remote Attack

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2009
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Safeguard your djbdns DNS server from remote threats by updating software, setting up firewalls, enforcing access controls, and using rate limiting for better security
Matthew Dempsky discovered that Daniel J

Summary

The old stable distribution (etch) does not contain djbdns.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.05-4+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.05-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your djbdns 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 5.0 alias lenny

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 85648 3147c5cd56832aa3b41955c7a51cbeb2
Size/MD5 checksum: 1237 b7dc377faa3cc915a4fc4c831188c536
Size/MD5 checksum: 52796 aa741f98a1c7d7b64f49b3ec3d69646d

Architecture independent packages:

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