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SUSE Security Advisory 2015:1481-1 Critical: Bind Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2015
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SUSE Security Update for bind addressing vulnerabilities addressing denial of service concerns, rated highly critical with detailed patch directives provided.
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 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-478=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-478=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-478=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64): bind-debuginfo-9.9.6P1-26.1 bind-debugsource-9.9.6P1-26.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical bind SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#944066

Cross- CVE-2015-5722

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/944066

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1481-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

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