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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53108
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-409)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'bind' package(s) announced via the DSA-409 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'bind' package(s) announced via the DSA-409 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
A vulnerability was discovered in BIND, a domain name server, whereby a malicious name server could return authoritative negative responses with a large TTL (time-to-live) value, thereby rendering a domain name unreachable. A successful attack would require that a vulnerable BIND instance submit a query to a malicious nameserver.

The bind9 package is not affected by this vulnerability.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1:8.3.3-2.0woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1:8.4.3-1.

We recommend that you update your bind package.

Affected Software/OS:
'bind' package(s) on Debian 3.0.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0914
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#734644
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/734644
Debian Security Information: DSA-409 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-409
En Garde Linux Advisory: ESA-20031126-031
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-03:19.bind
IBM ERS/BRS Advisory: MSS-OAR-E01-2003.1524
Immunix Linux Advisory: IMNX-2003-7+-024-01
NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2003-018
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2011
SCO Security Bulletin: CSSA-2003-SCO.33
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/CSSA-2003-SCO.33/CSSA-2003-SCO.33.txt
SCO Security Bulletin: CSSA-2004-003.0
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/CSSA-2004-003.0/CSSA-2004-003.0.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/10542
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57434
SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2003:047 (Google Search)
http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2003/TSL-2003-0044-bind.asc.txt
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