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Debian: Security Advisory for bind9 (DSA-4909-1)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'bind9' package(s) announced via the DSA-4909-1 advisory.
Insight
Insight
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in BIND, a DNS server implementation. CVE-2021-25214 Greg Kuechle discovered that a malformed incoming IXFR transfer could trigger an assertion failure in named, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2021-25215 Siva Kakarla discovered that named could crash when a DNAME record placed in the ANSWER section during DNAME chasing turned out to be the final answer to a client query. CVE-2021-25216 It was discovered that the SPNEGO implementation used by BIND is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. This update switches to use the SPNEGO implementation from the Kerberos libraries.
Affected Software
Affected Software
'bind9' package(s) on Debian Linux.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u5. We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.