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Debian: DSA 1341-2 Critical: BIND9 Cache Poisoning Risk

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2007
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An update from Debian fixes vulnerabilities linked to predictable DNS query IDs, potentially leading to cache poisoning. Act promptly to secure your BIND setups
Amit Klein discovered that the BIND name server generates predictable DNS query IDs, which may lead to cache poisoning attacks

Summary


For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 9.2.4-1sarge3. An update for mips, powerpc and hppa is not yet
available, they will be released soon.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 9.3.4-2etch1. An update for mips is not yet available, it will
be released soon.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your BIND packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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 may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 741 1fa2bc8b...

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