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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-8119 (bind)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: bind-9.6.1-4.P1.fc11
Date:  Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:55:31 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090730035531.9658910F89A@bastion2.fedora.phx.redhat.com>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8119 2009-07-30 03:20:01.687336 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : bind Product : Fedora 11 Version : 9.6.1 Release : 4.P1.fc11 URL : http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/ Summary : The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server Description : BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named), which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to the latest release which fixes important security issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jul 29 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-4.P1 - 9.6.1-P1 release (CVE-2009-0696) - fix postun trigger (#513016, hopefully) * Mon Jul 13 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-3 - fix broken symlinks in bind-libs (#509635) - fix typos in /etc/sysconfig/named (#509650) - add DEBUG option to /etc/sysconfig/named (#510283) * Wed Jun 24 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-2 - improved "chroot automount" patches (#504596) - host should fail if specified server doesn't respond (#507469) * Thu Jun 18 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-1 - 9.6.1 release - simplify chroot maintenance. Important files and directories are mounted into chroot (see /etc/sysconfig/named for more info, #504596) - fix doc/named.conf.default perms * Wed May 27 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.6.1-0.4.rc1 - 9.6.1rc1 release -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #514292 - CVE-2009-0696 bind: DoS (assertion failure) via nsupdate packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514292 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update bind' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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