security advisorydenial of servicebuffer overflow
Ilja van Sprundel discovered that a buffer overflow in NSD, an authoritative name service daemon, allowed to crash the server by sending a crafted packet, creating a denial of service. . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1803-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst May 20, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : nsd, nsd3 Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CERT advisory : VU#710316 Debian Bug : 529418 529420 Ilja van Sprundel discovered that a buffer overflow in NSD, an authoritative name service daemon, allowed to crash the server by sending a crafted packet, creating a denial of service. For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.6-1+etch1 of the nsd package. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-1.1+lenny1 of the nsd package and version 3.0.7-3.lenny2 of the nsd3 package. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-3 for nsd; nsd3 will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your nsd or nsd3 package. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. 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You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show 'and https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . Debian Security Notice DSA-1820-1 pertains to a vulnerability in OpenSSH which results in a potential information leak.. Debian Security Advisory, NSD Daemon Fix, Denial of Service Correction. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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