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Fedora 21: Moderate Update 2015-7047 Addresses PowerDNS Crash Issue

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PowerDNS has rolled out an upgrade to version 3.4.4 for Fedora 21, addressing severe crashes and enhancing reliability.
- Update to 3.4.4 - CVE-2015-1868 Release notes: External References:

Summary

The PowerDNS Nameserver is a modern, advanced and high performance

authoritative-only nameserver. It is written from scratch and conforms

to all relevant DNS standards documents.

Furthermore, PowerDNS interfaces with almost any database.

Update Information:

- Update to 3.4.4 - CVE-2015-1868

Release notes:


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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora dns crash pdns

Change Log

* Mon Apr 27 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.4.4-1 - Update to 3.4.4 - CVE-2015-1868 - Remove polarssl-devel as build dependency * Mon Mar 2 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.4.3-1 - Update to 3.4.3 * Tue Feb 17 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.4.2-2 - Rename zone2ldap to pdns-zone2ldap (#1193116) - Remove rpath workaround * Sat Feb 7 2015 Morten Stevens - 3.4.2-1 - Update to 3.4.2 - Disable security status polling by default * Tue Jan 27 2015 Petr Machata - 3.4.1-2 - Rebuild for boost 1.57.0

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' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: pdns
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.4.4
Release: 1.fc21
URL: https://www.powerdns.com/
Summary: A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora dns crash pdns

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