Bind9 security upgrade

[Greg Rivers]

On Friday, 5 February 2021 19:10:26 CST bob prohaska wrote:
> What's the appropriate port of bind for use at present?
> It appears 9.16.1 is subject to a DOS attack, to which I 
> seem to have fallen victim:
> https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8617
> 
> There's a port called bind9.16.11, which is compiling now,
> but it's unclear if that's adequately patched. The CVE 
> calls for 9.16.3 as the fixed version. 
> 
I think that means >= 9.16.3. But 9.16.3 is pretty old by now, and many other bugs have since been fixed. You definitely want to track the current stable release, which is 9.16.11 at present.

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Greg