SUSE: 2017:0998-1 Important: BIND Denial Of Service Flaws
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April 13, 2017
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is ...
Summary
This update for bind fixes the following issues: CVE-2017-3137 (bsc#1033467): Mistaken assumptions about the ordering of records in the answer section of a response containing CNAME or DNAME resource records could have been exploited to cause a denial of service of a bind server performing recursion. CVE-2017-3136 (bsc#1033466): An attacker could have constructed a query that would cause a denial of service of servers configured to use DNS64. CVE-2017-3138 (bsc#1033468): An attacker with access to the BIND control channel could have caused the server to stop by triggering an assertion failure. CVE-2016-6170 (bsc#987866): Primary DNS servers could have caused a denial of service of secondary DNS servers via a large AXFR response. IXFR servers could have caused a denial of service of IXFR clients via a large
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References
#1020983 #1033466 #1033467 #1033468 #987866
#989528
Cross- CVE-2016-2775 CVE-2016-6170 CVE-2017-3136
CVE-2017-3137 CVE-2017-3138
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
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-2016-2775.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6170.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3136.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3137.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3138.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1020983
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0998-1
Rating: important
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