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Fedora 20: 2015-7079 Moderate: Pdns-Recursor Label Decompression Crash

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for pdns-recursor in Fedora: resolves label decompression crash CVE-2015-1868, ensuring system stability.
- Update to 3.7.2 - CVE-2015-1868 External References:

Summary

PowerDNS Recursor is a non authoritative/recursing DNS server. Use this

package if you need a dns cache for your network.

Update Information:

- Update to 3.7.2 - CVE-2015-1868

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora crash issue pdns-recursor label decompression

Change Log

* Mon Apr 27 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.7.2-1 - Update to 3.7.2 - CVE-2015-1868 * Tue Feb 17 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.7.1-1 - Update to 3.7.1 - Disable security status polling by default * Fri Oct 31 2014 Morten Stevens - 3.6.2-1 - Update to 3.6.2 - Enable security status polling * Wed Sep 10 2014 Morten Stevens - 3.6.1-1 - Update to 3.6.1 - CVE-2014-3614 (#1139251) * Fri Jun 20 2014 Morten Stevens - 3.6.0-1 - Update to 3.6.0 * Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.6.0-0.2.rc1 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild * Fri May 30 2014 Morten Stevens - 3.6.0-0.1.rc1 - Update to 3.6.0-rc1 * Fri May 23 2014 Petr Machata - 3.5.3-3 - Rebuild for boost 1.55.0 * Mon Feb 10 2014 Morten Stevens - 3.5.3-2 - Add upstream patch to fix rhbz#1063305

References




[ 1 ] Bug #1213377 - CVE-2015-1868 pdns: Label decompression bug in PowerDNS can cause crashes on specific platforms https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213377

Update Instructions

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

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Name: pdns-recursor
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 3.7.2
Release: 1.fc20
URL: https://www.powerdns.com/
Summary: Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non authoritative name server

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora crash issue pdns-recursor label decompression

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