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SUSE 11-SP4: 2015:1480-1 Important: Bind Denial of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2015
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SUSE Security Advisory for dns server exposure mitigation vulnerability, strengthening network security. Learn more here.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The nameserver bind was updated to fix a remote denial of service (crash) attack against bind nameservers doing validation on DNSSEC signed records. (CVE-2015-5722, bsc#944066). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-bind-12067=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch sdksp3-bind-12067=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch slessp3-bind-12067=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-bind-12067=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch slessp3-bind-12067=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS:

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References

#944066

Cross- CVE-2015-5722

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5722.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/944066

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1480-1
Rating: important

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