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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2016-f2e884e3b9 critical: dnsmasq dns query vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security patch for nsd in Fedora 24 tackles CVE-2016-6173 and enhances OPENPGPKEY functionality for DNS servers.
Updated to 4.1.13 (CVE-2016-6173, OPENPGPKEY support)

Summary

NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS name server.

For further information about what NSD is and what NSD is not please

consult the REQUIREMENTS document which is a part of this distribution.

Update Information:

Updated to 4.1.13 (CVE-2016-6173, OPENPGPKEY support)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora update dns server nsd zone limit

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1353577 - CVE-2016-6173 nsd: Improper restriction of zone size limit [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353577

Update Instructions

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

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Name: nsd
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.1.13
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/about/
Summary: Fast and lean authoritative DNS Name Server

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora update dns server nsd zone limit

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