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openSUSE: 2016:0827-1 Important: Bind DoS Attacks Fixed

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important security patch for bind addressing two significant remote service interruption weaknesses in openSUSE.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for bind fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2016-1285: remote DoS caused by malformed data on control channel

* CVE-2016-1286: remote DoS via assertion failure in parsing of signature

records for DNAME records

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch 2016-365=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

bind-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-chrootenv-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-debugsource-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-devel-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-libs-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-lwresd-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-utils-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-utils-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

bind-libs-32bit-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

bind-doc-9.9.4P2-2.29.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1285.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1286.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970072

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970073

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0827-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

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