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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1172-1 security_at_debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
September 9th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : bind9
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE IDs : CVE-2006-4095 CVE-2006-4096
CERT advisories: VU#697164 VU#915404
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND9, the Berkeley
Internet Name Domain server. The first relates to SIG query
processing and the second relates to a condition that can trigger an
INSIST failure, both lead to a denial of service.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 9.2.4-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 9.3.2-P1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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 at the end of this advisory:
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
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