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Slackware 14.x: 2020-106-01 Critical: Bind DNS Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey April 15, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated bind packages have been released for Slackware to fix significant security vulnerabilities and enhance DNS safeguarding.

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-9.11.18-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: DNS rebinding protection was ineffective when BIND 9 is configured as a forwarding DNS server. Found and responsibly reported by Tobias Klein. [GL #1574] (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security update bind slackware package upgrade DNS issue

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: f62dd2a32c11271dfba0d09f1ee668b2 bind-9.11.18-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 20b0637590e88c500953203c6b5d9d9f bind-9.11.18-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 1a246c07fb78859ea6eb91b504128e89 bind-9.11.18-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 7d6a07533692bfe65c5bd864035c59cc bind-9.11.18-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 8ebf7c4350c926df96c65632e8b48b3b bind-9.11.18-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: fceb46faf6a6ded54ae922e15ff980a3 bind-9.11.18-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: a5fca3ab2b7e856a48ba922dccc9acdb n/bind-9.16.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 299639862682750736a7a06d65fd4055 n/bind-9.16.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.11.18-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart

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