[MaraDNS list] MaraDNS 1.4.08 and MaraDNS 1.3.07.12 released

Nicholas Bamber nicholas at periapt.co.uk
Fri Dec 30 18:45:44 EST 2011


Sam,

1.4.08-1 is in preparation whatever the bureaucracy. I have asked the
Debian security team what they want to do with the old releases.

On 30/12/11 21:17, Sam Trenholme wrote:
> In terms of issuing a Debian security update:
> 
> MaraDNS 2 is not affected and does not need to be patched.
> 
> I have a minimal patch fixing only this security issue:
> 
> http://maradns.org/download/patches/maradns-1.3-secret_hash.patch
> 
> The patch requires /dev/urnadom; Debian has this. [1]
> 
> While there isn't a CVE for this issue in relation to MaraDNS, the
> problem is covered by CERT VU#903934 [2]
> 
> - Sam
> 
> [1] There really isn't much out there besides DOS and Windows that
> doesn't have /dev/urandom these days.
> 
> [2] This will hopefully preclude Debian's bureaucratic hoop of needing
> a vulnerability number before patching MaraDNS


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