Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3023 bind9 – security update

Jared Mauch reported a denial of service flaw in the way BIND, a DNS
server, handled queries for NSEC3-signed zones. A remote attacker could
use this flaw against an authoritative name server that served
NCES3-signed zones by sending a specially crafted query, which, when
processed, would cause named to crash.

[BSA-096] Security Update for libreoffice

Rene Engelhard uploaded new packages for libreoffice which fixed the following
security problems:

CVE-2014-0247
  It was discovered that LibreOffice unconditionally executed certain VBA
  macros, contrary to user expectations.

  https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0247

The stable distribution (wheezy) is not affected by this issue.

For the testing (jessie) and unstable (sid) distributions, these
problems have been fixed in version 1:4.2.5-1.

For the wheezy-backports distribution, these problems have been fixed in
version 1:4.2.5-1~bpo70+1.