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SUSE: 2015:1496-1 Critical: Mitigated DoS Threat in Bind Security

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2015
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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 Server 11-SP1-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp1-bind-12070=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP1: zypper in -t patch dbgsp1-bind-12070=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP1-LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64): bind-9.6ESVR11W1-0.9.1 bind-chrootenv-9.6ESVR11W1-0.9.1 bind-devel-9.6ESVR11W1-0.9.1 bind-doc-9.6ESVR11W1-0.9.1 bind-libs-9.6ESVR11W1-0.9.1 bind-utils-9.6ESVR11W1-0.9.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory bind DoS critical update SUSE

References

#944066

Cross- CVE-2015-5722

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP1

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944066

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1496-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory bind DoS critical update SUSE

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