[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: nsd-3.2.13-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11207
2012-07-28 00:39:47
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Name        : nsd
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 3.2.13
Release     : 1.fc16
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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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jul 27 2012 Paul Wouters <pwouters at redhat.com> - 3.2.13-1
- Updated to 3.2.13, addresses VU#517036 CVE-2012-2979
  (note Fedora/EPEL packages are not vulnerable to this)
* Thu Jul 19 2012 Paul Wouters <pwouters at redhat.com> - 3.2.12-1
- Upgraded to 3.2.12 which fixes CVE-2012-2978 (rhbz#841268)
* Mon Jul 16 2012 Paul Wouters <pwouters at redhat.com> - 3.2.11-1
- Updated to 3.2.11
- Remove execute perm from unitdir file
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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 program.  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 Project 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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