Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1803-1 nsd, nsd3 -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 20 May 2009
- Affected Packages:
- nsd, nsd3
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 529418, Bug 529420.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-1755.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#710316. - More information:
-
Ilja van Sprundel discovered that a buffer overflow in NSD, an authoritative name service daemon, allowed to crash the server by sending a crafted packet, creating a denial of service.
For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.6-1+etch1 of the nsd package.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-1.1+lenny1 of the nsd package and version 3.0.7-3.lenny2 of the nsd3 package.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-3 for nsd; nsd3 will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your nsd or nsd3 package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.6-1+etch1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd/nsd_2.3.7-1.1+lenny1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nsd3/nsd3_3.0.7-3.lenny2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.