An unpatched security hole in BIND 9 package could be used by attackers to poison your DNS cache. Attacker to take control of all hosted domains and can can lead to misdirected web traffic and email rerouting.

This update changes Debian's BIND 9 packages to implement the recommended countermeasure: UDP query source port randomization. This change increases the size of the space from which an attacker has to guess values in a backwards-compatible fashion and makes successful attacks significantly more difficult.

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