USN-622-1: Bind vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• bind9 -

Details

Dan Kaminsky discovered weaknesses in the DNS protocol as implemented
by Bind. A remote attacker could exploit this to spoof DNS entries and
poison DNS caches. Among other things, this could lead to misdirected
email and web traffic.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04

• libdns35 - 1:9.4.2-10ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 7.10

• libdns32 - 1:9.4.1-P1-3ubuntu2

Ubuntu 7.04

• libdns22 - 1:9.3.4-2ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 6.06

• libdns21 - 1:9.3.2-2ubuntu1.5

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

References

• CVE-2008-1447

Related notices

• USN-627-1: dnsmasq, dnsmasq-base