USN-706-1: Bind vulnerability

9 January 2009

Bind vulnerability

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Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that Bind did not properly perform signature verification.
When DNSSEC with DSA signatures are in use, a remote attacker could exploit
this to bypass signature validation to spoof DNS entries and poison DNS
caches. Among other things, this could lead to misdirected email and web
traffic.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 6.06

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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