SUSE SLES11 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2017:0112-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 96434
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for bind fixes the following issues :
- Fix a potential assertion failure that could have been triggered by a malformed response to an ANY query, thereby facilitating a denial-of-service attack.
[CVE-2016-9131, bsc#1018700, bsc#1018699]
- Fix a potential assertion failure that could have been triggered by responding to a query with inconsistent DNSSEC information, thereby facilitating a denial-of-service attack. [CVE-2016-9147, bsc#1018701, bsc#1018699]
- Fix potential assertion failure that could have been triggered by DNS responses that contain unusually-formed DS resource records, facilitating a denial-of-service attack. [CVE-2016-9444, bsc#1018702, bsc#1018699]
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5:zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-bind-12936=1
SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1:zypper in -t patch slemap21-bind-12936=1
SUSE Manager 2.1:zypper in -t patch sleman21-bind-12936=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-bind-12936=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-bind-12936=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-bind-12936=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp2-bind-12936=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-bind-12936=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-bind-12936=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.