Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3680-1 bind9 -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 27 Sep 2016
- Affected Packages:
- bind9
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 831796, Bug 839010.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-2775, CVE-2016-2776. - More information:
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Two vulnerabilities were reported in BIND, a DNS server.
- CVE-2016-2775
The lwresd component in BIND (which is not enabled by default) could crash while processing an overlong request name. This could lead to a denial of service.
- CVE-2016-2776
A crafted query could crash the BIND name server daemon, leading to a denial of service. All server roles (authoritative, recursive and forwarding) in default configurations are affected.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u7.
We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.
- CVE-2016-2775