[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: ldns-1.6.11-2.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-13929
2011-10-07 03:50:20
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Name        : ldns
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.6.11
Release     : 2.fc15
URL         : http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ldns/
Summary     : Lowlevel DNS(SEC) library with API
Description :
ldns is a library with the aim to simplify DNS programming in C. All
low-level DNS/DNSSEC operations are supported. We also define a higher
level API which allows a programmer to (for instance) create or sign
packets.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2011-3581, and other DNSSEC related fixes.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct  5 2011 Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> - 1.6.11-2
- Updated to 1.6.11, fixes rhbz#741026 which is CVE-2011-3581
- Python goes into sitearch, not sitelib
- Fix source link and spelling errors in description
* Wed Jun  8 2011 Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> - 1.6.10-1
- Updated to 1.6.10
- commented out build dependancies for svn snapshots
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #741026 - ldns: heap overflow flaw in ldns_rr_new_frm_str_internal() [epel-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741026
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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