A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.04 Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 5.04: bind9 1:9.2.4-1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 5.10: bind9 1:9.3.1-2ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: bind9 1:9.3.2-2ubuntu1.1
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
bind did not sufficiently verify particular requests and responses from other name servers and users. By sending a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the name server.