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Debian: DSA-3420-1 Critical: Bind9 DoS Issue Affecting DNS Services

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2015
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory
It was discovered that the BIND DNS server does not properly handle the parsing of incoming responses, allowing some records with an incorrect class to be accepted by BIND instead ...
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u4.

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-2015-8000

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