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Debian Lenny DSA-2130-1 High: Remote DoS Threats Fixed in BIND

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2010
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Explore the newly released Debian advisory DSA-2131-2 that tackles vulnerabilities in OpenSSH, strengthening defenses against unauthorized access.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND, an implementation of the DNS protocol suite

Summary

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND, an
implementation of the DNS protocol suite. The Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2010-3762
When DNSSEC validation is enabled, BIND does not properly
handle certain bad signatures if multiple trust anchors exist
for a single zone, which allows remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (server crash) via a DNS query.

CVE-2010-3614
BIND does not properly determine the security status of an NS
RRset during a DNSKEY algorithm rollover, which may lead to
zone unavailability during rollovers.

CVE-2010-3613
BIND does not properly handle the combination of signed
negative responses and corresponding RRSIG records in the
cache, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (server crash) via a query for cached data.

In addition, this security update improves compatibility with
previously installed versions of the bind9 package. As a result, it
is necessary to initiate th...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: bind9

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