Security update for dnsmasq

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0979-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Cloud for SLE 12 Compute Nodes 5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

The DNS server dnsmasq was updated to fix one security issue and one non-security bug.

The following vulnerability was fixed:

  • CVE-2015-3294: A remote unauthenticated attacker could have caused a denial of service (DoS) or read heap memory, potentially disclosing information such as performed DNS queries or encryption keys. (bsc#928867)

The following bug was fixed:

  • bsc#923144: When answer to an upstream query is a CNAME pointing to an A/AAAA record which is present locally (/etc/hosts), allow caching when the upstream and local A/AAAA records have the same value.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Cloud for SLE 12 Compute Nodes 5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE12-CLOUD-5-2015-229=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-229=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-229=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-229=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Cloud for SLE 12 Compute Nodes 5 (x86_64)
    • dnsmasq-utils-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-debuginfo-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-debugsource-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-utils-debuginfo-2.71-4.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64)
    • dnsmasq-debuginfo-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-debugsource-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-2.71-4.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • dnsmasq-debuginfo-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-debugsource-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-2.71-4.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (x86_64)
    • dnsmasq-debuginfo-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-debugsource-2.71-4.1
    • dnsmasq-2.71-4.1

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