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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1255-1 bind9 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

21 Jan 2018

Affected Packages:

bind9

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-3145.

More information:

Jayachandran Palanisamy of Cygate AB reported that BIND, a DNS server implementation, was improperly sequencing cleanup operations, leading in some cases to a use-after-free error, triggering an assertion failure and crash in named.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u19.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.

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