[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: bind-9.9.2-2.fc18
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Sun Oct 21 06:15:37 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-16022
2012-10-12 17:49:10
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Name : bind
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 9.9.2
Release : 2.fc18
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.
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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.
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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
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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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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