Summary
The remote host is missing an update to bind
announced via advisory DSA 409-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20409-1
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.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0914 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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