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Slackware 15.0: SSA:2025-029-01 critical: bind DoS issues fixed

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Calendar Grey January 29, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent bind updates for Slackware resolve vulnerabilities associated with DNS amplification attacks and RDATA handling constraints.
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-9.18.33-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: DNS-over-HTTP(s) flooding fixes. Limit the additional processing for large RDATA sets. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12705 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11187 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory bind package update DoS security fix slackware DNS

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/bind-9.18.33-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/bind-9.18.33-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/bind-9.20.5-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/bind-9.20.5-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: eecc2a5c3ac228b23fa0e693a5b12c91 bind-9.18.33-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 46f07f31d4b4654bae4551dc787a2c7b bind-9.18.33-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 59f731de3e1d3011b10d17f9f3756b24 n/bind-9.20.5-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 1dc877754e2432036d0194a06855ccef n/bind-9.20.5-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory bind package update DoS security fix slackware DNS

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.18.33-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart

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