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openSUSE 12.1 & 11.4: Security Update for Bind Remote DoS

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Essential openSUSE upgrade enhances bind to counteract external denial of service vulnerabilities. Urgent patch guidance provided.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

A remote denial of service in the bind nameserver via zero

length rdata fields was fixed.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 12.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-316

- openSUSE 11.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-316

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64):

bind-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-chrootenv-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-debuginfo-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-debugsource-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-devel-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-libs-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-lwresd-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-utils-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-utils-debuginfo-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

- openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64):

bind-libs-32bit-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

- openSUSE 12.1 (noarch):

bind-doc-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

- openSUSE 12.1 (ia64):

bind-libs-debuginfo-x86-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

bind-libs-x86-9.8.1P1-4.11.1

- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

bind-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-chrootenv-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-debuginfo-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-debugsource-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-devel-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-libs-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-lwresd-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-utils-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-utils-debuginfo-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

- openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64):

bind-libs-32bit-9.7.4P1-0.28.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1667.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0722-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.1 openSUSE 11.4 .

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