security patches to the 9.6.1 version, as well as many other bug fixes.
This version also incorporates a different fix for the problem we had
patched in contrib/bind9/bin/dig/dighost.c, so that file is now back
to being the same as the vendor version.
Due to the fact that the DNSSEC algorithm that will be used to sign the
root zone is only included in this version and in 9.7.x those who wish
to do validation MUST upgrade to one of these prior to July 2010.
lots of new features compared to 9.4.x, including:
Full NSEC3 support
Automatic zone re-signing
New update-policy methods tcp-self and 6to4-self
DHCID support.
More detailed statistics counters including those supported in BIND 8.
Faster ACL processing.
Efficient LRU cache-cleaning mechanism.
NSID support.
1. The default access control lists (acls) are not being
correctly set. If not set anyone can make recursive queries
and/or query the cache contents.
See also:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2925
2. The DNS query id generation is vulnerable to cryptographic
analysis which provides a 1 in 8 chance of guessing the next
query id for 50% of the query ids. This can be used to perform
cache poisoning by an attacker.
This bug only affects outgoing queries, generated by BIND 9 to
answer questions as a resolver, or when it is looking up data
for internal uses, such as when sending NOTIFYs to slave name
servers.
All users are encouraged to upgrade.
See also:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2926
Approved by: re (kensmith, implicit)
