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openSUSE: 2015:1667-1 Important: Bind Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2015
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openSUSE releases a security patch for bind to address a critical denial of service vulnerability. Explore the complete advisory information and steps for upgrading.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

BIND was updated to fix a denial of service against servers performing

validation on DNSSEC-signed records (CVE-2015-5722, bsc#944066).

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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 Evergreen 11.4:

zypper in -t patch 2015-625=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

bind-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-chrootenv-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-debugsource-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-devel-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-libs-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-lwresd-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-utils-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-utils-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-69.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (x86_64):

bind-libs-32bit-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9.9.4P2-69.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (noarch):

bind-doc-9.9.4P2-69.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (ia64):

bind-libs-debuginfo-x86-9.9.4P2-69.1

bind-libs-x86-9.9.4P2-69.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5722.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944066

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1667-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 .

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