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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2017:1412-1 Important: rpcbind DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial enhancement for rpcbind on openSUSE has been released, targeting a denial-of-service vulnerability and bolstering system protection.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for rpcbind fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2017-8779: A crafted UDP package could lead rcpbind to remote

denial-of-service (bsc#1037559)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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-2017-615=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

rpcbind-0.2.3-3.3.1

rpcbind-debuginfo-0.2.3-3.3.1

rpcbind-debugsource-0.2.3-3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8779.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037559

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1412-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 .

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