USN-1025-1: Bind vulnerabilities

1 December 2010

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It was discovered that Bind would incorrectly allow a ncache entry and a
rrsig for the same type. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause
Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-3613)

It was discovered that Bind would incorrectly mark zone data as insecure
when the zone is undergoing a key algorithm rollover. (CVE-2010-3614)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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