Summary
The remote host is missing an update to bind9
announced via advisory DSA 2347-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202347-1
Insight
It was discovered that BIND, a DNS server, crashes while processing certain sequences of recursive DNS queries, leading to a denial of service. Authoritative-only server configurations are not affected by this issue.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.6.ESV.R4+dfsg-0+lenny4.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze4.
We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-4313 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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