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Debian 7 DSA-3096-1 Moderate: Pdns-Recursor DoS Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2014
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The DSA-3096-1 security update for pdns-recursor addresses critical DoS vulnerabilities, mitigating risks from excessive queries and requests that can disrupt services
Florian Maury from ANSSI discovered a flaw in pdns-recursor, a recursive DNS server : a remote attacker controlling maliciously-constructed zones or a rogue server could affect the...

Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3-3+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdns-recursor packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: pdns-recursor
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8601

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