GLSA 200903-14: BIND: Incorrect signature verification

Severity:normal
Title:BIND: Incorrect signature verification
Date:03/09/2009
Bugs: #254134, #257949
ID:200903-14

Synopsis

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

Background

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

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
net-dns/bind < 9.4.3_p1 >= 9.4.3_p1 All supported architectures

Description

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

Availability

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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License

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