Matthew Horsfall of Dyn, Inc. discovered that BIND, a DNS server, is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted DNS query to named that, when processed, would cause named to use an excessive amount of memory, or possibly crash. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze10. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu1. We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.
Matthew Horsfall of Dyn, Inc. discovered that BIND, a DNS server, is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted DNS query to named that, when processed, would cause named to use an excessive amount of memory, or possibly crash.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze10.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu1.
We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.
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