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gpp_maybe Security update for bind
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-36

This update of bind to 9.9.6P1 fixes bugs and also the following security issue: A flaw in delegation handling could be exploited to put named into an infinite loop. This has been addressed by placing limits on the number of levels of recursion named will allow (default 7), and the number of iterative queries that it will send (default 50) before terminating a recursive query (CVE-2014-8500, bnc#908994). The recursion depth limit is configured via the "max-recursion-depth" option, and the query limit via the "max-recursion-queries" option. Also the rpz2 patch was removed as it is no longer maintained.

  • Release Date
    Jan 14 2015
  • References
    Bugzilla: 908994
    CVEs: CVE-2014-8500
  • Type
    security
  • Severity
    important

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 x86_64
  • Packages
    bind
    Domain Name System (DNS) Server (named)
    9.9.5P1-8.1 lock src
    bind-libs
    Shared libraries of BIND
    9.9.5P1-8.1 lock rpm
    bind-libs-32bit
    Shared libraries of BIND
    9.9.5P1-8.1 lock rpm
    bind-utils
    Utilities to query and test DNS
    9.9.5P1-8.1 lock rpm