Debian: DSA-1434-1 High: MyDNS Buffer Overflow DoS Issue
debian
December 16, 2007
It was discovered that in MyDNS, a domain name server with database
backend, the daemon could be crashed through malicious remote update
requests, which may lead to denial of ser...
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Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.0-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your mydns 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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1016 6d0a22d23d6a218b2f6c36a0973fec29
Size/MD5 checksum: 23201 68288d6559240f652b363175077ee372
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size...
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