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Fedora 27: 2018-97bdb9ba32 Critical: dnsperf Use-After-Free Issue

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent BIND upgrade for Fedora 27 brings significant improvements to dnsperf's security and corrects critical performance testing issues.
Upgrades to latest minor supported BIND

Summary

This is dnsperf, a collection of DNS server performance testing tools.

For more information, see the dnsperf(1) and resperf(1) man pages.

Upgrades to latest minor supported BIND. Includes first -P1 security release

fixing CVE-2017-3145.

[ 1 ] Bug #1535307 - CVE-2017-3145 bind: Improper sequencing during cleanup can lead to use-after-free error, causinga crash in named [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535307

su -c 'dnf upgrade dnsperf' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 2.1.0.0
Release: 11.fc27
URL: Summary : Benchmarking authorative and recursing DNS servers

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