RHEL 6.x Updates BIND Daemon

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, an enterprise Linux platform suited for a range of applications across the IT infrastructure, just received an important security update.

According to the Red Hat developers, the multi-threaded BIND daemon uses the atomic operations feature to speed-up an access to shared data. This feature did not work correctly on the 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC architectures.

The BIND daemon sometimes became unresponsive on these architectures. This update disables the atomic operations feature on the 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC architectures, so the problem is now gone.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this as having moderate security impact, but nonetheless, everyone should install the updates as soon as possible.

The update affects the following operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS 6.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS 6.2, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation.