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Fedora 24: 2017-d0c9bf9508 Moderate: Bind99 DNS Assertion Crash Fix

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2017
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The latest release of Bind99 significantly boosts security by rectifying vulnerabilities in DNS operations and enhancing overall resilience.
Security fix for CVE-2017-3135 (unaffected), fixes regression made by CVE-2016-8864

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:

Security fix for CVE-2017-3135 (unaffected), fixes regression made by CVE-2016-8864

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical patch assertion failure bind99

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1420193 - CVE-2017-3135 bind: Assertion failure when using DNS64 and RPZ Can Lead to Crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420193

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade bind99' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: bind99
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 9.9.9
Release: 4.P6.fc24
URL: Summary : The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) libraries

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical patch assertion failure bind99

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