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Fedora 23: 2016-cbef6c8619 Critical: Bind99 Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch available for bind99 in Fedora targeting buffer overflow issue linked to CVE-2016-2776. Update immediately!
Update to the latest upstream version due to CVE-2016-2776

Summary

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS

(Domain Name System) protocols. This package set contains only export

version of BIND libraries, that are used for building ISC DHCP.

Update Information:

Update to the latest upstream version due to CVE-2016-2776

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow bind critical update

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 bind99' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: bind99
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 9.9.9
Release: 2.P3.fc23
URL: Summary : The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) libraries

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security advisory fedora buffer overflow bind critical update

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