SUSE: 2016:2697-2 Important: Bind Denial-of-Service Fixed
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November 3, 2016
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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 Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2016-1588=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2 (aarch64): bind-9.9.9P1-49.1 bind-chrootenv-9.9.9P1-49.1 bind-debuginfo-9.9.9P1-49.1
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References
#1007829 #965748
Cross- CVE-2016-8864
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
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-2016:2697-2
Rating: important
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