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SUSE: 2022:3509-2 Critical: Apache HTTP Server Vulnerability Resolved

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2016
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This advisory highlights a significant buffer overflow vulnerability that could allow unauthorized access. Comprehensive information and remediation steps contained herein.
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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 OpenStack Cloud 5: zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-bind-12829=1 - SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1: zypper in -t patch slemap21-bind-12829=1 - SUSE Manager 2.1: zypper in -t patch sleman21-bind-12829=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-bind-12829=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update bind SUSE important update patch instructions

References

#1007829 #965748

Cross- CVE-2016-8864

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-2016-8864.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007829

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965748

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2706-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update bind SUSE important update patch instructions

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