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SUSE: 2016:0826-1 Critical: OpenSSL Cryptography Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2016
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE releases a security alert regarding bind, addressing severe vulnerabilities linked to remote denial of service risks and essential enhancements.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for bind fixes the following issues: Fix two assertion failures that can lead to a remote denial of service attack: * CVE-2016-1285: An error when parsing signature records for DNAME can lead to named exiting due to an assertion failure. (bsc#970072) * CVE-2016-1286: An error when parsing signature records for DNAME records having specific properties can lead to named exiting due to an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c. (bsc#970073) 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-12464=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-bind-12464=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:

References

#970072 #970073

Cross- CVE-2016-1285 CVE-2016-1286

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4

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-2016-1285.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1286.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970072

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970073

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0825-1
Rating: important

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