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Gentoo: GLSA 202301-05 Important: POSTFIX Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 2, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several security flaws in BIND on Gentoo pose risks of remote denial-of-service attacks. It is advisable to perform an upgrade to bolster protection.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in BIND, the worst of which allowing to cause remote Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo BIND normal severity network issue

Resolution

All bind users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/bind-9.7.4_p1"
NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since December 22, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3613 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3613 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-3614 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3614 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-3615 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3615 [ 4 ] CVE-2010-3762 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3762 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-0414 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0414 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-1910 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1910 [ 7 ] CVE-2011-2464 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2464 [ 8 ] CVE-2011-2465 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2465 [ 9 ] CVE-2011-4313 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4313

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-01
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Normal
Title: BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: June 02, 2012
Bugs: #347621, #356223, #368863, #374201, #374623, #390753
ID: 201206-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Gentoo BIND normal severity network issue

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in BIND, the worst of which allowing to cause remote Denial of Service.

Background

BIND is the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dns/bind < 9.7.4_p1 >= 9.7.4_p1

Impact

===== The vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service (daemon crash) via a DNS query, to bypass intended access restrictions, to incorrectly cache a ncache entry and a rrsig for the same type and to incorrectly mark zone data as insecure.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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