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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-14
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: BIND: Incorrect signature verification
Date: March 09, 2009
Bugs: #254134, #257949
ID: 200903-14

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Synopsis
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Incomplete verification of RSA and DSA certificates might lead to
spoofed records authenticated using DNSSEC.

Background
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ISC BIND is the Internet Systems Consortium implementation of the
Domain Name System (DNS) protocol.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-dns/bind < 9.4.3_p1 >= 9.4.3_p1

Description
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BIND does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL
functions to verify DSA (CVE-2009-0025) and RSA (CVE-2009-0265)
certificates.

Impact
======

A remote attacker could bypass validation of the certificate chain to
spoof DNSSEC-authenticated records.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

All BIND users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/bind-9.4.3_p1"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2009-0025
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0025
[ 2 ] CVE-2009-0265
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0265

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-14.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5