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openSUSE Evergreen 11.4: 2016:0830-1 Important Bind Remote DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Updates addressing two critical concerns in openSUSE regarding bind have been released, along with instructions for applying security patches.
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 Evergreen 11.4:

zypper in -t patch 2016-365=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

bind-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-chrootenv-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-debugsource-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-devel-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-libs-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-lwresd-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-utils-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-utils-debuginfo-9.9.4P2-75.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (x86_64):

bind-libs-32bit-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9.9.4P2-75.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (noarch):

bind-doc-9.9.4P2-75.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (ia64):

bind-libs-debuginfo-x86-9.9.4P2-75.1

bind-libs-x86-9.9.4P2-75.1

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/970072

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970073

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0830-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Evergreen 11.4

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