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Debian Sarge: DSA-1341-1 Critical: Bind9 Cache Poisoning

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2007
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Explore essential upgrades for Debian's bind9 to resolve severe DNS cache poisoning vulnerabilities impacting system security.
Amit Klein discovered that the BIND name server generates predictable DNS query IDs, which may lead to cache poisoning attacks. An update for the oldstable distribution (sarge) ...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 9.3.4-2etch1. An update for mips is not yet available, it will
be released soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your BIND 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 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 758 428b3a45636c78046dbb77d9335a9973
Size/MD5 checksum: 287783 47a34c979ee9db072b37e2ae0ad0bdec
Size/MD5 checksum: 4043577 198181d47c58a0a9c0265862cd5557b0

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