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Fedora 22: 2015-11483 Moderate Security Fix for Bind DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2015
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Patch applied for Denial of Service vulnerability in Fedora 22 BIND through upgrade to release 9.10.2-P2, mitigating CVE-2015-4620.
- update to 9.10.2-P2 - fix for CVE-2015-4620

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 9.10.2-P2 - fix for CVE-2015-4620

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Topics Covered

security advisory update DoS issue Fedora bind moderate severity

Change Log

* Thu Jul 9 2015 Tomas Hozza - 32:9.10.2-3.P2 - Update to 9.10.2-P2 * Fri Jun 19 2015 Tomas Hozza - 32:9.10.2-2.P1 - Update to 9.10.2-P1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1237258 - CVE-2015-4620 bind: abort DoS caused by uninitialized value use in isselfsigned() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237258

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 22
Version: 9.10.2
Release: 3.P2.fc22
URL: Summary : The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server

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security advisory update DoS issue Fedora bind moderate severity

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