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