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Fedora 11 BIND Critical DoS Affected by CVE-2009-0696 FEDORA-2009-8119

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Crucial safety enhancement for BIND in Fedora 11 tackles weaknesses with essential remedies.
Update to the latest release which fixes important security issue.

Summary

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS

(Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named),

which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library

(routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and

tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly.

Update Information:

Update to the latest release which fixes important security issue.

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Change Log

* Wed Jul 29 2009 Adam Tkac 32:9.6.1-4.P1 - 9.6.1-P1 release (CVE-2009-0696) - fix postun trigger (#513016, hopefully) * Mon Jul 13 2009 Adam Tkac 32:9.6.1-3 - fix broken symlinks in bind-libs (#509635) - fix typos in /etc/sysconfig/named (#509650) - add DEBUG option to /etc/sysconfig/named (#510283) * Wed Jun 24 2009 Adam Tkac 32:9.6.1-2 - improved "chroot automount" patches (#504596) - host should fail if specified server doesn't respond (#507469) * Thu Jun 18 2009 Adam Tkac 32:9.6.1-1 - 9.6.1 release - simplify chroot maintenance. Important files and directories are mounted into chroot (see /etc/sysconfig/named for more info, #504596) - fix doc/named.conf.default perms * Wed May 27 2009 Adam Tkac 32:9.6.1-0.4.rc1 - 9.6.1rc1 release

References


[ 1 ] Bug #514292 - CVE-2009-0696 bind: DoS (assertion failure) via nsupdate packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514292

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update bind' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: bind
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 9.6.1
Release: 4.P1.fc11
URL: Summary : The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server

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