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MGASA-2012-0257

Date: September 7th, 2012
Affected releases: 1


Description:
Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability:

High numbers of queries with DNSSEC validation enabled can cause an
assertion failure in named, caused by using a bad cache data structure
before it has been initialized (CVE-2012-3817).


Updated Packages:
bind-9.8.3P2-1.mga1
bind-utils-9.8.3P2-1.mga1
bind-devel-9.8.3P2-1.mga1
bind-doc-9.8.3P2-1.mga1


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3817
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.8.3-P2/RELEASE-NOTES-BIND-9.8.3-P2.txt
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00729
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/?dis=2011&name=MDVSA-2012:119
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6873

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