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USN-622-1: Bind vulnerability

8 July 2008

Bind vulnerability

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Releases

Packages

Details

Dan Kaminsky discovered weaknesses in the DNS protocol as implemented
by Bind. A remote attacker could exploit this to spoof DNS entries and
poison DNS caches. Among other things, this could lead to misdirected
email and web traffic.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 6.06

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

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