openSUSE Security Update: bind: Fixed a remote denial of service in DNSSEC ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0969-1 Rating: moderate References: #772945 Cross-References: CVE-2012-3817 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.1 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
Bind was updated to fix a denial of service (crash) during heavy DNSSEC validation load that can cause a "Bad Cache" assertion failure.
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 12.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-494
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64):
bind-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-chrootenv-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-debuginfo-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-debugsource-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-devel-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-libs-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-libs-debuginfo-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-lwresd-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-lwresd-debuginfo-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-utils-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-utils-debuginfo-9.8.3P2-4.17.1
- openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64):
bind-libs-32bit-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit-9.8.3P2-4.17.1
- openSUSE 12.1 (noarch):
bind-doc-9.8.3P2-4.17.1
- openSUSE 12.1 (ia64):
bind-libs-debuginfo-x86-9.8.3P2-4.17.1 bind-libs-x86-9.8.3P2-4.17.1
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3817.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/772945