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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2016:0298-2 Critical: Bind Remote Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2016
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A significant enhancement for openSUSE Leap 42.1 addressing a bind security flaw that stops remote malfunctions.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for bind fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2015-8704: Specific APL data allowed remote attacker to trigger a

crash in certain configurations (bsc#962189)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.

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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 Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-70=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

bind-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-chrootenv-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-debuginfo-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-debugsource-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-devel-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-libs-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-lwresd-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-utils-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-utils-debuginfo-9.9.6P1-30.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

bind-libs-32bit-9.9.6P1-30.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9.9.6P1-30.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

bind-doc-9.9.6P1-30.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8704.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962189

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0197-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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