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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-696-1 bind9 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

02 Nov 2016

Affected Packages:

bind9

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-8864.

More information:

Tony Finch and Marco Davids reported an assertion failure in BIND, a DNS server implementation, which causes the server process to terminate. This denial-of-service vulnerability is related to a defect in the processing of responses with DNAME records from authoritative servers and primarily affects recursive resolvers.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u13.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.

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