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Yellow Dog Linux Security Advisory: bind

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 11, 1999

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:05:13 -0700 (MST)
From: Dan Burcaw <<a
href=”mailto:dburcaw@terraplex.com”>dburcaw@terraplex.com>

To: yellowdog-security@lists.yellowdoglinux.com

The Yellow Dog Linux Updates Team has released a new updates to
the bind (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) software.


Package: bind
Date: November 10, 1999
Problem:

The Internet Software Consortium have announced the discovery of
six bugs which result in vulnerabilities of varying levels of
severity in BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain).

For more information about the particular bugs found, see ISC’s
security announcement.

(http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html)

Based upon ISC’s findings, Terra Soft strongly recommends that
all users of bind upgrade to the new version as soon as
possible.

Urgency: HIGH
Solution: rpm -Uvh


ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/champion-1.1/RPMS/bind-8.2.2p3-1a.ppc.rpm


ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/champion-1.1/RPMS/bind-devel-8.2.2p3-1a.ppc.rpm


ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/champion-1.1/RPMS/bind-utils-8.2.2p3-1a.ppc.rpm

As always, we advise users to verify the md5 checksum of these
packages with the checksums listed below by running: md5sum

be0a7d6f81e96fda3c5e19c710c4647a RPMS/bind-8.2.2p3-1a.ppc.rpm
39ae72c82387094cfce49e4c8702b56b RPMS/bind-devel-8.2.2p3-1a.ppc.rpm
2557d3ed1f8a7d8b29a95e01b751c371 RPMS/bind-utils-8.2.2p3-1a.ppc.rpm

More information is available at:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/resources/errata.shtml

Regards,
Yellow Dog Linux Updates Team
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
updates@yellowdoglinux.com

Web Webster

Web Webster

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