[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: nsd-3.2.2-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5190
2009-05-19 23:55:54
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Name        : nsd
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 3.2.2
Release     : 1.fc9
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:

Security release.    A one-byte overflow bug allows a carefully crafted exploit
to bring down your DNS server. It is highly unlikely that this one byte overflow
can lead to other (system) exploits.
http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/publications/NSD_vulnerability_announcement.html
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 18 2009 Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> - 3.2.2-1
- Upgraded to 3.2.2 security release
  http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/publications/NSD_vulnerability_announcement.html
- Removed obsoleted options --enable-plugins --enable-mmap
* Fri Apr 10 2009 Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> - 3.2.1-1
- updated to 3.2.1
- fixed /dev/nul which cause a file /%1 to be written by cron
- Applied Ville Mattila's changes to support non-default locations
* Mon Sep 15 2008 Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> - 3.1.1-1
- Updated to new version
* Mon Jun 30 2008 Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> - 3.1.0-1
- Updated to new version
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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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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