Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3798 tnef – security update

Eric Sesterhenn, from X41 D-Sec GmbH, discovered several
vulnerabilities in tnef, a tool used to unpack MIME attachments of
type application/ms-tnef. Multiple heap overflows, type confusions
and out of bound reads and writes could be exploited by tricking a
user into opening a malicious attachment. This would result in denial
of service via application crash, or potential arbitrary code
execution.

DSA-3795 bind9 – security update

It was discovered that a maliciously crafted query can cause ISC’s
BIND DNS server (named) to crash if both Response Policy Zones (RPZ)
and DNS64 (a bridge between IPv4 and IPv6 networks) are enabled. It
is uncommon for both of these options to be used in combination, so
very few systems will be affected by this problem in practice.