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SUSE: 2015:2359-1 Important: Bind Remote Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey December 25, 2015
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SUSE Security Patch for bind: Resolves a critical remote denial of service vulnerability affecting version 12-SP1 software.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for bind fixes the following security issue: - CVE-2015-8000: Fix remote denial of service by misparsing incoming responses (bsc#958861). 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-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2015-1016=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2015-1016=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2015-1016=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1 (ppc64le s390x x86_64): bind-debuginfo-9.9.6P1-32.1 bind-debugsource-9.9.6P1-32.1

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References

#958861

Cross- CVE-2015-8000

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8000.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958861

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:2359-1
Rating: important

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