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Debian: DSA-2728-1 Critical: Bind9 Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2013
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory
Maxim Shudrak and the HP Zero Day Initiative reported a denial of service vulnerability in BIND, a DNS server
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze11.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: bind9
CVE ID: CVE-2013-4854

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