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Slackware: 2018-222-01 High: Bind Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] bind (SSA:2018-222-01) New bind p
New bind packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.10.8_P1-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a security issue where named could crash during recursive processing of DNAME records when "deny-answer-aliases" was in use resulting in a denial of service. Note that "deny-answer-aliases" is rarely used. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5740 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity bind security fix slackware

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 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: 041023d947ffece54b22634cbabb5d77 bind-9.9.13_P1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 839e62957c64dbe7f097bf0302a8a98a bind-9.9.13_P1-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: f2e87f277c20dff52c4ca5eb3c0adaf2 bind-9.9.13_P1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 445bb300b26defe48cb98672fc0d53c8 bind-9.9.13_P1-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: cb9b284b798d1c8c7db695c2ecb8c1bc bind-9.10.8_P1-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 797e5dccded1bb72ceaede860cd79e82 bind-9.10.8_P1-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 6729dbb467b44ed934ca4c03ddfbbc78 n/bind-9.12.2_P1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 56bc799888ee94f1eadb43737a04fb75 n/bind-9.12.2_P1-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity bind security fix slackware

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.10.8_P1-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart