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Fedora 22 dnsperf Update: Critical Security Fix for Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey December 22, 2015
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New update available for Fedora 22, targeting vulnerabilities in dnsperf. Key security flaws have been rectified to enhance overall system efficiency.
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Summary

Update Information:

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security advisory update critical Fedora fix Denial of Service dnsperf

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1291176 - CVE-2015-8000 bind: responses with a malformed class attribute can trigger an assertion failure in db.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291176 [ 2 ] Bug #1291186 - CVE-2015-8461 bind: race condition when handling socket errors can lead to an assertion failure in resolver.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291186

Update Instructions

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

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Name: dnsperf
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.0.0.0
Release: 19.fc22
URL: Summary : Benchmarking authorative and recursing DNS serversDescription :

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security advisory update critical Fedora fix Denial of Service dnsperf

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