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openSUSE: 2018:1395-1 Moderate Update for Knot DNS TSIG Vulnerability Fix

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This Debian patch resolves a significant vulnerability in bind9, providing improved domain name system safety and reliability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for knot fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2017-11104: Knot DNS contained a flaw within the TSIG protocol

implementation that would allow an attacker with a valid key name and

algorithm to bypass TSIG authentication if no additional ACL

restrictions are set, because of an improper TSIG validity period check.

(boo#1047841)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update openSUSE knot TSIG flaw

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-494=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

knot-1.6.5-5.3.1

knot-debuginfo-1.6.5-5.3.1

knot-debugsource-1.6.5-5.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11104.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047841

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1395-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update openSUSE knot TSIG flaw

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