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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-805-1 bind9 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 Jan 2017

Affected Packages:

bind9

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9131, CVE-2016-9147, CVE-2016-9444.

More information:

Several denial-of-service vulnerabilities (assertion failures) were discovered in BIND, a DNS server implementation.

• CVE-2016-9131

  A crafted upstream response to an ANY query could cause an assertion failure.

• CVE-2016-9147

  A crafted upstream response with self-contradicting DNSSEC data could cause an assertion failure.

• CVE-2016-9444

  Specially-crafted upstream responses with a DS record could cause an assertion failure.

These vulnerabilities predominantly affect DNS servers providing recursive service. Client queries to authoritative-only servers cannot trigger these assertion failures. These vulnerabilities are present whether or not DNSSEC validation is enabled in the server configuration.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u14.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.

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