Package : pdns-recursor
Vulnerability : DNS cache poisoning
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-4010
It was discovered that pdns-recursor, the PowerDNS recursive name server, contains a cache poisoning vulnerability which may allow attackers to trick the server into serving incorrect DNS data (CVE-2009-4010).
This DSA provides a security update for the old stable distribution
(etch), similar to the previous update in DSA-1968-1. (Note that the
etch version of pdns-recursor was not vulnerable to CVE-2009-4009.)
Extra care should be applied when installing this update. It is an etch backport of the lenny version of the package (3.1.7 with security fixes applied). Major differences in internal domain name processing made
backporting just the security fix too difficult.
For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.4+v3.1.7-0+etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pdns-recursor 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 4.0 alias etch
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