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SUSE: 2024:2862-1 Important: Bind Denial of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2024
Dist Suse Esm H88
A critical safety notice outlining improvements to bind, encompassing resolutions for service interruption flaws.
* bsc#1228256 * bsc#1228257 * bsc#1228258 Cross-References:

Summary

## This update for bind fixes the following issues: Update to 9.16.50: * Bug Fixes: * A regression in cache-cleaning code enabled memory use to grow significantly more quickly than before, until the configured max-cache-size limit was reached. This has been fixed. * Using rndc flush inadvertently caused cache cleaning to become less effective. This could ultimately lead to the configured max-cache-size limit being exceeded and has now been fixed. * The logic for cleaning up expired cached DNS records was tweaked to be more aggressive. This change helps with enforcing max-cache-ttl and max-ncache- ttl in a timely manner. * It was possible to trigger a use-after-free assertion when the overmem cache cleaning was initiated. This has been fixed. New Features: * Added RESOLVER.ARPA to the built in empty zones.

References

* bsc#1228256

* bsc#1228257

* bsc#1228258

Cross-

* CVE-2024-1737

* CVE-2024-1975

* CVE-2024-4076

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-1737 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2024-1975 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2024-4076 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

* Server Applications Module 15-SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:2862-1
Rating: important

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