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Debian: DSA-1963-1 Critical: Unbound DNSSEC Validation Problem

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2009
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Crucial DNSSEC validation flaw addressed in Unbound for Debian. Security upgrade highly advised.
It was discovered that Unbound, a DNS resolver, does not properly check cryptographic signatures on NSEC3 records

Summary

It was discovered that Unbound, a DNS resolver, does not properly
check cryptographic signatures on NSEC3 records. As a result, zones
signed with the NSEC3 variant of DNSSEC lose their cryptographic
protection. (An attacker would still have to carry out an ordinary
cache poisoning attack to add bad data to the cache.)

The old stable distribution (etch) does not contain an unbound
package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-1+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) and the testing distribution
(squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your unbound 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 ma...

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