DSA-2347-1 bind9 -- improper assert

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2347-1 bind9 -- improper assert

Date Reported:

16 Nov 2011

Affected Packages:

bind9

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-4313.

More information:

It was discovered that BIND, a DNS server, crashes while processing certain sequences of recursive DNS queries, leading to a denial of service. Authoritative-only server configurations are not affected by this issue.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.6.ESV.R4+dfsg-0+lenny4.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze4.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.