Introduction

BIND 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 is security patch for BIND 9.6-ESV-R4.

Please see the CHANGES file in the source code release for a complete list of all changes.

Download

The latest versions of BIND 9 software can always be found on our web site at http://www.isc.org/downloads/all. There you will find additional information about each release, source code, and some pre-compiled versions for certain operating systems.

Support

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Security Fixes

9.6-ESV-R4-P3

Change #2912 (see CHANGES) exposed a latent bug in the DNS message processing code that could allow certain UPDATE requests to crash named. This was fixed by disambiguating internal database representation vs DNS wire format data. [RT #24777] [CVE-2011-2464]

Thank You

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