[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ndjbdns-1.05.5-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-20967
2012-12-26 04:28:25
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Name        : ndjbdns
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.05.5
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://pjp.dgplug.org/djbdns/
Summary     : New djbdns: usable djbdns
Description :
New djbdns: is a usable fork of djbdns. `djbdns' is a Domain Name System
originally written by the eminent author of Qmail, Dr D. J. Bernstein.
This *new* version of djbdns is a complete makeover to the original
source(djbdns-1.05) and is meant to make life a lot more pleasant. The
notable changes so far are in the set-up & configuration steps and
integration with the systemd(1) framework. This new release is free from
the clutches of `daemon-tools'. The original source is in public-domain
since late Dec 2007(see: http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html);

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Update Information:

This fixes two of the cache poisoning issue in the DNS resolver - dnscache.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Dec 23 2012 pjp <pj.pandit at yahoo.co.in> - 1.05.5-1
- Applied patch to make SOA responses cache-able.
- Applied patch to merge identical outgoing requests.
- Applied patch to install Sys-V init scripts for RHEL and systemd
  unit files for latest fedora and RHEL-7 distributions.
  patch from: Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com>
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #838965 - ndjbdns is vulnerable to CVE-2008-4392 (cache poisoning attack)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838965
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ndjbdns' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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