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Gentoo: GLSA 200908-02 Regular: BIND Service Disruption Alert

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo GLSA 202310-05 discusses a critical system vulnerability, providing guidance on preventive measures and remediation procedures.
Dynamic Update packets can cause a Denial of Service in the BIND daemon.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200908-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: BIND: Denial of Service Date: August 01, 2009 Bugs: #279508 ID: 200908-02

Synopsis ======= Dynamic Update packets can cause a Denial of Service in the BIND daemon.
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_p3 >= 9.4.3_p3
========== Matthias Urlichs reported that the dns_db_findrdataset() function fails when the prerequisite section of the dynamic update message contains a record of type "ANY" and where at least ...

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