SUSE: 2015:0488-1 Important: bind CVE-2014-8500 Infinite Loop
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March 12, 2015
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available
Summary
This bind update to version 9.6-ESV-R11-W1 fixes the following security
issue:
* A flaw in delegation handling could be exploited to put named into
an infinite loop. This has been addressed by placing limits on the
number of levels of recursion named will allow (default 7), and the
number of iterative queries that it will send (default 50) before
terminating a recursive query (CVE-2014-8500, bnc#908994). The
recursion depth limit is configured via the "max-recursion-depth"
option, and the query limit via the "max-recursion-queries" option.
Security Issues:
* CVE-2014-8500
Topics Covered
References
#908994
Cross- CVE-2014-8500
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8500.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908994
https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0488-1
Rating: important
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