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SUSE: SUSE-SU-2011:1270-4 Critical: Bind DNS Vulnerability Notification

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2011
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SUSE Security Patch for apache, addressing urgent web-server vulnerability and enhancing infrastructure reliability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

   SUSE Security Update: Security update for bind
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2011:1270-3
Rating:             important
References:         #730995 
Cross-References:   CVE-2011-4313
Affected Products:
                    SUSE CORE 9
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   An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:


   The following bug has been fixed:

   * specially crafted DNS queries could crash the bind
   name server (CVE-2011-4313).

   Security Issue reference:

   * CVE-2011-4313
   



Package List:

   - SUSE CORE 9 (i586 s390 s390x x86_64):

      bind-9.3.4-4.14
      bind-devel-9.3.4-4.14
      bind-utils-9.3.4-4.14

   - SUSE CORE 9 (x86_64):

      bind-utils-32bit-9-201111241547

   - SUSE CORE 9 (s390x):

      bind-utils-32bit-9-201111241609


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4313.html

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