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Slackware: 2022-264-01 Moderate: Bind Memory Leak Fixes

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to binding libraries address memory inefficiencies and resource drain in Slackware 15.0, enhancing overall system efficiency.
New bind packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.16.33-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and the following security issues: Fix memory leak in EdDSA verify processing. Fix memory leak in ECDSA verify processing. Fix serve-stale crash that could happen when stale-answer-client-timeout was set to 0 and there was a stale CNAME in the cache for an incoming query. Prevent excessive resource use while processing large delegations. For more information, see: https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-38178 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-38177 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-3080 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-2795 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38178 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38177 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3080 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2795 (* Security fix *)

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 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 5aea2a521fe9f4b2b7157a2337debf72 bind-9.16.33-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 784afb6061c510e04ecd7782a233b149 bind-9.16.33-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 9ef2fdf9866925731e3f86f9ae1b62ac n/bind-9.18.7-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 0b5e5bcba60832b4e5dbb75bb4b13070 n/bind-9.18.7-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.16.33-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart

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