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Fedora 21: FEDORA-2015-15061 Important: Bind Denial of Service Patch

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent security patch for Fedora 21 addresses denial of service vulnerability caused by corrupt DNSSEC key.
Fixed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259690

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:

Fixed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259690

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue fedora bind

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1259087 - CVE-2015-5722 bind: malformed DNSSEC key failed assertion denial of service https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259087

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 21
Version: 9.9.6
Release: 11.P1.fc21
URL: Summary : The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue fedora bind

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