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Debian: DSA-1619-2 Critical Fix for Python-Dns Remote Spoofing

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2008
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Urgent patch for python-dns in Debian addressing DNS poisoning vulnerabilities and fixing identified regressions. Conduct update immediately.
In DSA-1619-1, an update was announced for DNS response spoofing vulnerabilities in python-dns

Summary


The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies this
class of weakness as CVE-2008-1447.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.3.0-5.2+etch2.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-dns 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
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 3807 4c9dceefe0dfc4ee933f3c9298764153
Size/MD5 checksum: 21084 82d377...

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