Introduction

BIND 9.6-ESV-R4-P1 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

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Security Fixes

9.6-ESV-R4-P1

A large RRSET from a remote authoritative server that results in the recursive resolver trying to negatively cache the response can hit an off by one code error in named, resulting in named crashing. [RT #24650] [CVE-2011-1910]
Zones that have a DS record in the parent zone but are also listed in a DLV and won't validate without DLV could fail to validate. [RT #24631]

Thank You

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