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Slackware 13.37 SSA:2011-189-01 Critical: BIND Service Crash

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Calendar Grey July 8, 2011
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent bind updates became available for Slackware addressing a DNS service vulnerability. Ensure your system is secure by upgrading immediately.
New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.37, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.7.3_P3-i486-1_slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. A specially constructed packet will cause BIND 9 ("named") to exit, affecting DNS service. The issue exists in BIND 9.6.3 and newer. "Change #2912 (see CHANGES) exposed a latent bug in the DNS message processing code that could allow certain UPDATE requests to crash named. This was fixed by disambiguating internal database representation vs DNS wire format data. [RT #24777] [CVE-2011-2464]" For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2464 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical bind security fix slackware dns service crash

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.37 package: 6aa159ec74146d5794cd46075541405c bind-9.7.3_P3-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 08abf6bfffc52c0a392658ebd3fa046c bind-9.7.3_P3-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware -current package: e5e1be017f8204ba3e3b4ad9e30f3714 n/bind-9.7.3_P3-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 3d1e556bc5a7646cf331398a8f09d582 n/bind-9.7.3_P3-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.7.3_P3-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart

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