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Fedora 23 Critical BIND Security Update: CVE-2016-2776 DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This announcement pertains to a crucial security patch for Fedora 23 BIND concerning CVE-2016-2776. Maintain your safety!
Update to latest upstream version due to CVE-2016-2776

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 latest upstream version due to CVE-2016-2776

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update buffer overflow bind threat dns

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1378380 - CVE-2016-2776 bind: assertion failure in buffer.c while building responses to a specifically constructed request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378380

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 23
Version: 9.10.4
Release: 2.P3.fc23
URL: Summary : The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update buffer overflow bind threat dns

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