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Debian 2.1: Security Advisory on Bind NXT Records DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey December 13, 1999
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The version bind that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a vulnerability in the processing of NXT records that can be used by an attacked in a Debian of Service attack or ...

Summary


The version bind that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has
a vulnerability in the processing of NXT records that can be used
by an attacked in a Debian of Service attack or theoretically be
exploited to gain access to the server.

This has been fixed in version 8.2.5p5-0slink1, and we
recommend that you upgrade your bind package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink

This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.


Source archives:

.2p5-0slink1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 7e869545b7fab796e264f2ac3b726030

-0slink1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 8dd6f2726596d6d37088309e7a42fa7c
.orig.
tar.gz
MD5 checksum: e910c207e3a419b1fdba646c28ee3102

Alpha architecture:

alpha/bind_8.2.2p5-0slink1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: e7eb3c2b03963338bafc3c13bdec776f

alpha/dnsutils_8.2.2p5-0slink1_alpha.deb
MD5 che...

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