Slackware 15.0: 2023-172-01 Critical: Bind Unexpected Termination
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June 22, 2023
New bind packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.16.42-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Exceeding the recursive-clients quota may cause named to terminate unexpectedly when stale-answer-client-timeout is set to 0. For more information, see: https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-2911 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2911 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
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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:
9a33e0bf727a990a196587b507056def bind-9.16.42-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
fcc444c3aef4fa3ec23c8c5dd39f56c2 bind-9.16.42-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
e0f2e82fdfe8bbbc2df9bb3a8e0290fd n/bind-9.18.16-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
fbfa631b95cc32f2dcaa4c5baeb68ab8 n/bind-9.18.16-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.16.42-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart
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