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SUSE 12 SP2: SUSE-SU-2016:2697-1 Important: BIND Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2016
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SUSE has released a crucial security update that addresses a severe vulnerability in bind, alongside fixing an avenue for denial-of-service attacks and other related issues.
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Summary

This update for bind fixes the following issues: - A defect in BIND's handling of responses containing a DNAME answer had the potential to trigger assertion errors in the server remotely, thereby facilitating a denial-of-service attack. (CVE-2016-8864, bsc#1007829). - Fix BIND to return a valid hostname in response to ldapdump queries. (bsc#965748) 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-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2016-1588=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-1588=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2016-1588=1

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security advisory denial of service update bind patch important SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#1007829 #965748

Cross- CVE-2016-8864

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8864.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007829

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965748

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2697-1
Rating: important

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