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SUSE: 2016:2405-1 Critical: Bind Remote Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2016
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Important SUSE Security Patch for bind, addressing a remote denial of service vulnerability. It is imperative to apply this update to your system without delay.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The nameserver bind was updated to fix a remote denial of service vulnerability, where a crafted packet could cause the nameserver to abort. (CVE-2016-2776, bsc#1000362) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5: zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-bind-12763=1 - SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1: zypper in -t patch slemap21-bind-12763=1 - SUSE Manager 2.1: zypper in -t patch sleman21-bind-12763=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-bind-12763=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-bind-12763=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp3-bind-12763=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS:

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical update bind issue remote service SUSE distribution

References

#1000362

Cross- CVE-2016-2776

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5

SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1

SUSE Manager 2.1

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 Point of Sale 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-2016-2776.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1000362

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2405-1
Rating: critical

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical update bind issue remote service SUSE distribution

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