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[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for pdns-recursor



Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for pdns-recursor which fixed the
following security problems:

CVE-2009-4009

  A buffer overflow can be exploited to crash the daemon, or potentially
  execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2009-4010

  A cache poisoning vulnerability may allow attackers to trick the
  server into serving incorrect DNS data.

For the etch-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 3.1.7-1+lenny1~bpo40+1.

For the sid distribution the problems have been fixed in version
3.1.7.2-1.


Upgrade instructions
--------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the packages
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with the
packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions>

We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new versions
of installed  backports will be installed automatically:

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=etch-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200

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