[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: ldns-1.6.11-2.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-13895
2011-10-06 21:17:55
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Name        : ldns
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.11
Release     : 2.fc16
URL         : http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ldns/
Summary     : Lowlevel DNS(SEC) library with API
Description :
ldns is a library with the aim to simplify DNS programming in C. All
low-level DNS/DNSSEC operations are supported. We also define a higher
level API which allows a programmer to (for instance) create or sign
packets.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2011-3581, and other DNSSEC related fixes.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #741025 - ldns: heap overflow flaw in ldns_rr_new_frm_str_internal() [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741025
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ldns' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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