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Debian Security Advisory: New version of bind released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 17, 1999

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:29:17 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <<a
href=”mailto:wichert@cistron.nl”>wichert@cistron.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Reply to: security@debian.org


Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert Akkerman
November 17, 1999


The version bind that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
has a vulnerability in the processing of NXT records that can be
used by an attacked in a Debian of Service attack or theoretically
be exploited to gain access to the server.

This has been fixed in version 8.2.5p5-0slink1, and we recommend
that you upgrade your bind package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink


This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/bind_8.2.2p5-0slink1.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: 7e869545b7fab796e264f2ac3b726030

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/bind_8.2.2p5-0slink1.dsc

MD5 checksum: 8dd6f2726596d6d37088309e7a42fa7c

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/bind_8.2.2p5.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: e910c207e3a419b1fdba646c28ee3102

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/bind_8.2.2p5-0slink1_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: e7eb3c2b03963338bafc3c13bdec776f

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/dnsutils_8.2.2p5-0slink1_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: e559e74e9b2ba8565974d5c21611a474

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/bind_8.2.2p5-0slink1_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: f25811f6d69034ea64c65382e6c9717d

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/dnsutils_8.2.2p5-0slink1_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: ce8a20f23ec3246cab484776652a18a4

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/bind_8.2.2p5-0slink1_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: f7e4c91d75bbd03325cfa666a3da35d7

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/dnsutils_8.2.2p5-0slink1_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 388f6dbae6ce8e897dfd636e4b3f15c6

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/bind_8.2.2p5-0slink1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: adf299fcdc50c8db77b5b3f462633b0f

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/dnsutils_8.2.2p5-0slink1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 89d1729caf15d6b51e2e5f8b6fccf5c4

These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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