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[slackware-security]  bind (SSA:2023-172-01)

New bind packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix
a security issue.


Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/bind-9.16.42-i586-1_slack15.0.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update fixes a security issue:
  Exceeding the recursive-clients quota may cause named to terminate
  unexpectedly when stale-answer-client-timeout is set to 0.
  For more information, see:
    https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-2911
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2911
  (* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project!  :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:

Updated package for Slackware -current:

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:


MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 15.0 package:
9a33e0bf727a990a196587b507056def  bind-9.16.42-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
fcc444c3aef4fa3ec23c8c5dd39f56c2  bind-9.16.42-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
e0f2e82fdfe8bbbc2df9bb3a8e0290fd  n/bind-9.18.16-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
fbfa631b95cc32f2dcaa4c5baeb68ab8  n/bind-9.18.16-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg bind-9.16.42-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Then, restart the name server:

# /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart


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