Summary
The remote host is missing an update to bind9
announced via advisory DSA 2517-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202517-1
Insight
Einar Lonn discovered that under certain conditions bind9, a DNS server, may use cached data before initialization. As a result, an attacker can trigger and assertion failure on servers under high query load that do DNSSEC validation.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze6.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-3817 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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