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Fedora 23 dnsperf Security Advisory: Critical DoS Threat Resolved

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security patch released for dnsperf on Fedora 23, addressing possible DNS server flaws. Ensure you update immediately.
security fix

Summary

Update Information:

security fix

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security advisory fedora DoS security fix 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 23
Version: 2.0.0.0
Release: 19.fc23
URL: Summary : Benchmarking authorative and recursing DNS serversDescription :

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