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SUSE: 2020:2914-1 Moderate: Bind Security Update Overview

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Update resolves 12 vulnerabilities, upgrades bind, and delivers numerous patches to bolster DNS security and reliability.
An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has 8 fixes is now available

Summary

This update for bind fixes the following issues: BIND was upgraded to version 9.16.6: Note: - bind is now more strict in regards to DNSSEC. If queries are not working, check for DNSSEC issues. For instance, if bind is used in a namserver forwarder chain, the forwarding DNS servers must support DNSSEC. Fixing security issues: - CVE-2020-8616: Further limit the number of queries that can be triggered from a request. Root and TLD servers are no longer exempt from max-recursion-queries. Fetches for missing name server. (bsc#1171740) Address records are limited to 4 for any domain. - CVE-2020-8617: Replaying a TSIG BADTIME response as a request could trigger an assertion failure. (bsc#1171740) - CVE-2019-6477: Fixed an issue where TCP-pipelined queries could bypass the tcp-clients limit (bsc#1157051).

References

#1100369 #1109160 #1118367 #1118368 #1128220

#1156205 #1157051 #1161168 #1170667 #1170713

#1171313 #1171740 #1172958 #1173307 #1173311

#1173983 #1175443 #1176092 #1176674 #906079

ECO-1402

Cross- CVE-2017-3136 CVE-2018-5741 CVE-2019-6477

CVE-2020-8616 CVE-2020-8617 CVE-2020-8618

CVE-2020-8619 CVE-2020-8620 CVE-2020-8621

CVE-2020-8622 CVE-2020-8623 CVE-2020-8624

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:2914-1
Rating: moderate

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