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Debian: DSA 1211-1 Critical: PowerDNS Remote Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2006
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Investigate the latest Debian security notice concerning buffer overflow threats found in PowerDNS software; crucial updates provided.
Updated package.

Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed
in version 3.1.4-1 of pdns-recursor.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.4-1 of pdns-recursor.

We recommend that you upgrade your PowerDNS packages.


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.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1018 bbfb6bdc6ba7d812941111bf6122c69f
Size/MD5 checksum: 29487 980f5e34c2ebb3dc69f89c990c87715e
Size/MD5 checksum: 782592 92489391182dc40012f1de7b2005ea93

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