DSA-409-1 bind -- denial of service

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-409-1 bind -- denial of service

Date Reported:

05 Jan 2004

Affected Packages:

bind

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9114.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0914.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#734644.

More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in BIND, a domain name server, whereby a malicious name server could return authoritative negative responses with a large TTL (time-to-live) value, thereby rendering a domain name unreachable. A successful attack would require that a vulnerable BIND instance submit a query to a malicious nameserver.

The bind9 package is not affected by this vulnerability.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1:8.3.3-2.0woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1:8.4.3-1.

We recommend that you update your bind package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-doc_8.3.3-2.0woody2_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind_8.3.3-2.0woody2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bind/bind-dev_8.3.3-2.0woody2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.