Debian DSA-1629-1 Critical: PowerDNS DNS Spoofing Mitigation
debian
August 10, 2008
Brian Dowling discovered that the PowerDNS authoritative name server
does not respond to DNS queries which contain certain characters,
increasing the risk of successful DNS spoof...
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.9.21.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pdns package.
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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 1137 0a41ec265f82fce6d439919cdae6001a
Size/MD5 checksum: 51420 bb972467332e6122cee9d363ca55ad2e
Size/MD5 checksum: 861879 66b3d3847f91e9ac3d13bdb8ddabfc7b
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 18402 ce1890128198b2924ec047c6fc4cd986
Size/MD5 checksum: 151286 ee2289703f9bc5a55ec2610309f...
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