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openSUSE: 2018:4062-1 Moderate: pdns-recursor Denial Of Service Fixes

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant openSUSE upgrade addresses four security vulnerabilities found in pdns-recursor. Detailed installation steps are provided within.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for pdns-recursor to version 4.1.8 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-10851: Fixed denial of service via crafted zone record or

crafted answer (bsc#1114157).

- CVE-2018-14644: Fixed denial of service via crafted query for meta-types

(bsc#1114170).

- CVE-2018-14626: Fixed packet cache pollution via crafted query

(bsc#1114169).

- CVE-2018-16855: Fixed case where a crafted query could cause a denial of

service (bsc#1116592)

Non-security issues fixed:

- Fixed build failure with Boost 1.67.0 (bsc#1089814).

- Revert ‘Keep the EDNS status of a server on FormErr with EDNS’

- Refuse queries for all meta-types

For more details about this update, refer to:

https://blog.powerdns.com/2018/11/26/powerdns-recursor-4-1-8-released

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update moderate severity openSUSE pdns-recursor

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:

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1524=1

Package List

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

pdns-recursor-4.1.8-13.1

pdns-recursor-debuginfo-4.1.8-13.1

pdns-recursor-debugsource-4.1.8-13.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10851.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14626.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14644.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16855.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089814

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1114157

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1114169

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1114170

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1116592

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:4062-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 le.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update moderate severity openSUSE pdns-recursor

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