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Debian: DSA-3304-1 Critical: BIND9 DoS Issue Resolution

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3305-1 outlines a vulnerability related to privilege escalation in the OpenSSH package. Users are urged to perform an upgrade.
Breno Silveira Soares of Servico Federal de Processamento de Dados (SERPRO) discovered that the BIND DNS server is prone to a denial of service vulnerability
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security advisory denial of service update debian bind9 dns

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u5.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch) and 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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: bind9
CVE ID: CVE-2015-4620

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security advisory denial of service update debian bind9 dns

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