Technical Description

FreeBSD has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities identified in Bind. These issues could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0349

Affected Products

FreeBSD 6.x
FreeBSD 5.x

Solution

Apply patch for FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1 :
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-07:02/bind61.patch
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-07:02/bind61.patch.asc

Apply patch for FreeBSD 6.2 :
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-07:02/bind62.patch
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-07:02/bind62.patch.asc

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0551
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc

ChangeLog

2007-02-12 : Initial release

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