Package : djbdns
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-0858
Debian Bug : 518169
Matthew Dempsky discovered that Daniel J. Bernstein's djbdns, a Domain
Name System server, does not constrain offsets in the required manner,
which allows remote attackers with control over a third-party subdomain
served by tinydns and axfrdns, to trigger DNS responses containing
arbitrary records via crafted zone data for this subdomain.
The old stable distribution (etch) does not contain djbdns.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.05-4+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.05-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your djbdns 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 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 5.0 alias lenny
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