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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-15981 (dnsperf)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: dnsperf-2.0.0.0-2.fc16
Date:  Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:52:50 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121023015250.AC5CF2095A@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-15981 2012-10-12 02:23:31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : dnsperf Product : Fedora 16 Version : 2.0.0.0 Release : 2.fc16 URL : http://www.nominum.com/resources/measurement-tools Summary : Benchmarking authorative and recursing DNS servers Description : This is dnsperf, a collection of DNS server performance testing tools. For more information, see the dnsperf(1) and resperf(1) man pages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to the latest BIND packages to fix CVE-2012-5166 and incorporate other fixes from upstream. Packages dhcp, bind-dyndb-ldap and dnsperf were rebuilt. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Oct 11 2012 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> - 2.0.0.0-2 - rebuild against new bind-libs - pack sample query file with bz2 * Wed Apr 18 2012 Paul Wouters <pwouters@redhat.com> - 2.0.0.0-1 - Upgraded to 2.0.0.0 - Fixup of URLs - Add pointer to sample query file in usage info - Added current query sample file as old example has been removed - Pulled in missing bind-9.8.x/9.9.x version of hmacsha.h - Removed doc/*pdf files, as their license might mean non-free * Tue Apr 17 2012 Paul Wouters <pwouters@redhat.com> - 1.0.1.0-27 - rebuilt for EVM (dnsperf-1.0.1.0-26.fc15 dnsperf-1.0.1.0-25.fc16) * Wed Jan 18 2012 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> - 1.0.1.0-26 - rebuild against new bind -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #864273 - CVE-2012-5166 bind: Specially crafted DNS data can cause a lockup in named https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864273 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dnsperf' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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