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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2017:1063-1 Important: Bind Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The recent security patch for openSUSE tackles various vulnerabilities in bind, significantly boosting both system security and overall reliability.
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is ...

Description

This update for bind fixes the following issues:

CVE-2017-3137 (bsc#1033467): Mistaken assumptions about the ordering of

records in the answer section of a response containing CNAME or DNAME

resource records could have been exploited to cause a denial of service of

a bind server performing recursion.

CVE-2017-3136 (bsc#1033466): An attacker could have constructed a query

that would cause a denial

of service of servers configured to use DNS64.

CVE-2017-3138 (bsc#1033468): An attacker with access to the BIND control

channel could have caused the server to stop by triggering an assertion

failure.

CVE-2016-6170 (bsc#987866): Primary DNS servers could have caused a denial

of service of secondary DNS servers via a large AXFR response. IXFR

servers could have caused a denial of service of IXFR clients via a large

IXFR response. Remote authenticated users could have caused a denial of

service of primary DNS servers via a large UPDATE...

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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 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-491=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-491=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

bind-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-chrootenv-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-debugsource-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-devel-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-libs-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-lwresd-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-utils-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-utils-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

bind-libs-32bit-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

bind-doc-9.9.9P1-48.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

bind-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-chrootenv-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-debugsource-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-devel-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-libs-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-lwresd-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-utils-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-utils-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-51.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

bind-doc-9.9.9P1-51.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

bind-libs-32bit-9.9.9P1-51.1

bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9.9.9P1-51.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2775.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6170.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3136.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3137.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3138.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1020983

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1033466

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1033467

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1033468

https://bugzilla.suse.com/987866

https://bugzilla.suse.com/989528

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1063-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1

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security advisory denial of service software update bind important system stability openSUSE Leap

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