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Gentoo: GLSA-200903-14 Normal: BIND DNSSEC Spoofing Risk

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2009
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Inadequate validation in BIND may result in forged DNSSEC entries. Update to address this vulnerability. Risk Level: Moderate.
Incomplete verification of RSA and DSA certificates might lead to spoofed records authenticated using DNSSEC.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: BIND: Incorrect signature verification Date: March 09, 2009 Bugs: #254134, #257949 ID: 200903-14

Synopsis ======= Incomplete verification of RSA and DSA certificates might lead to spoofed records authenticated using DNSSEC.
Background ========= ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dns/bind < 9.4.3_p1 >= 9.4.3_p1
========== BIND does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL functions to verify DSA (CVE-2009-0025) and RSA (CVE-2009-02...

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