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Debian 4.0 DSA-1445-1 Critical: Maradns Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey January 3, 2008
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Uncover the ways in which the newest maradns updates tackle a coding flaw that leads to service interruptions in Debian environments.
Michael Krieger and Sam Trenholme discovered a programming error in MaraDNS, a simple security-aware Domain Name Service server, which might to denial of service through malforme...

Summary


For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.0.27-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.12.08-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your maradns 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.


Debian 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 568 b211f2c8bb6f589b68e470dd3cbb7bf7
Size/MD5 checksum: 706012 5fd4a3e8024a0a7561f...

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