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SUSE Security Announcement
Package: bind
Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2009:005
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000
Affected Products: openSUSE 10.3
openSUSE 11.0
openSUSE 11.1
SUSE SLES 9
Novell Linux Desktop 9
Open Enterprise Server
Novell Linux POS 9
SLE SDK 10 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 DEBUGINFO
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
Vulnerability Type: information disclosure
Severity (1-10): 7
SUSE Default Package: no
Cross-References: CVE-2009-0025
Content of This Advisory:
1) Security Vulnerability Resolved:
bind does not completely verify the OpenSSL certification chain
Problem Description
2) Solution or Work-Around
3) Special Instructions and Notes
4) Package Location and Checksums
5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:
none
6) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information
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1) Problem Description and Brief Discussion
The DNS daemon bind is used to resolve and lookup addresses on the inter-
net.
Some month ago a vulnerability in the DNS protocol and its numbers was
published that allowed easy spoofing of DNS entries. The only way to pro-
tect against spoofing is to use DNSSEC.
Unfortunately the bind code that verifys the certification chain of a DNS-
SEC zone transfer does not properly check the return value of function
DSA_do_verify(). This allows the spoofing of records signed with DSA or
NSEC3DSA.
2) Solution or Work-Around
none
3) Special Instructions and Notes
Please restart bind.
4) Package Location and Checksums
The preferred method for installing security updates is to use the YaST
Online Update (YOU) tool. YOU detects which updates are required and
automatically performs the necessary steps to verify and install them.
Alternatively, download the update packages for your distribution manually
and verify their integrity by the methods listed in Section 6 of this
announcement. Then install the packages using the command
rpm -Fhv
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