[CentOS] BIND vulnerability

Thu Jul 30 16:48:02 UTC 2009
Benjamin Franz <jfranz at freerun.com>

Bob Hoffman wrote:
>  Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to
> update.
> Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message.
>
> The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online and I see a
> few thousand fedora and redhat issues with this python thing. Strange that
> it is trying to install a package update only to find that package is not
> there..... Yeesh
>
> But was able to run yum update bind and get the issues resolved.
>
>
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package python.x86_64 0:2.4.3-24.el5_3.6 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 for package: libxslt-python
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 for package: gamin-python
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 for package: libxml2-python
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.x86_64 from installed has depsolving
> problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package
> libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.x86_64 (installed)
> libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package
> libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64 (installed)
> gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package
> gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package
> libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.x86_64 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package
> libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package
> gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 (installed)
>
> _

Try doing: yum clean all && yum update

That did it for me.

Thanks goes to John R. Dennison for the fix.

-- 
Benjamin Franz