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Fedora 21: 2015:7031 Critical: PDNS-Recursor Crash Issue

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Keep your Fedora 21 installation protected by applying the latest pdns-recursor updates, which fix a serious crash vulnerability.
- 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 critical Fedora crash issue pnfs-recursor

Change Log

* Mon Apr 27 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.7.2-1 - Update to 3.7.2 - CVE-2015-1868 * Thu Feb 12 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.7.1-1 - Update to 3.7.1 - Disable security status polling by default * Tue Jan 27 2015 Petr Machata - 3.7.0-0.2.rc1 - Rebuild for boost 1.57.0 * Thu Jan 22 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.7.0-0.1.rc1 - Update to 3.7.0-rc1

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 21
Version: 3.7.2
Release: 1.fc21
URL: https://www.powerdns.com/
Summary: Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non authoritative name server

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora crash issue pnfs-recursor

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