S.P.Zeidler | 13 Jul 2011 20:22
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Core group composition

Dear all,

The directors of the NetBSD Foundation and the Core group wish to
welcome Alan Barrett as new member of the Core group.

He is replacing Antti Kantee; our sincerest thanks to Antti
for all his efforts during his core tenure, specially for pushing
through the tiered port support model and for making bug bounties
a reality. 

On behalf of board,
	S.P.Zeidler

NetBSD Security Officer | 26 Jul 2011 06:04
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2011-006: BIND DoS via packet with rrtype zero


		 NetBSD Security Advisory 2011-006
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Topic:		BIND DoS via packet with rrtype zero

Version:	NetBSD-current:		affected prior to 20110706
		NetBSD 5.1:		affected prior to 20110708
		NetBSD 5.0:		affected prior to 20110708
		NetBSD 4.0.*:		affected prior to 20110716
		NetBSD 4.0:		affected prior to 20110716
		pkgsrc:			net/bind96, net/bind97 and net/bind98
                                        packages prior to 20110706

Severity:	Denial of Service

Fixed:		NetBSD-current:		Jul 6th, 2011
		NetBSD-5-1 branch:	Jul 8th, 2011
		NetBSD-5-0 branch:	Jul 8th, 2011
		NetBSD-5 branch:	Jul 8th, 2011
		NetBSD-4-0 branch:	Jul 16th, 2011
		NetBSD-4 branch:	Jul 16th, 2011
		pkgsrc net/bind96:	bind-9.6.3.1.ESV4pl3 corrects this issue
		pkgsrc net/bind97:	bind-9.7.3pl3 corrects this issue
		pkgsrc net/bind98:	bind-9.8.0pl4 corrects this issue

Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 4.0 are no longer supported.
It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release.

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