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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-6530
2012-07-27 21:31:44
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Name : nsd
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 3.2.13
Release : 1.el5
URL :
http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/
Summary : Fast and lean authoritative DNS Name Server
Description :
NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS name server.
For further information about what NSD is and what NSD is not please
consult the REQUIREMENTS document which is a part of this distribution
(thanks to Olaf).
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Update Information:
Updated upstream releasee for CVE-2012-2979 / VU#517036, our packages were not
vulnerable.
Fix for CVE-2012-2978: NSD denial of service vulnerability from non-standard DNS packet
from any host
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #841268 - CVE-2012-2978: nsd: NSD denial of service vulnerability from
non-standard DNS packet from any host on the internet.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841268
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update nsd' 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 EPEL 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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