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Debian: DSA-5851-1 Critical: pdns-recursor Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2025
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Potential vulnerability in pdns-recursor detected; Debian users advised to implement updates for improved protection.
Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that too permissive parsing of some resource record sets in the zone file parsing of PDNS Recursor could result in denial of service
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Summary

Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that too permissive parsing of some
resource record sets in the zone file parsing of PDNS Recursor could
result in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.8.8-1+deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdns-recursor packages.

For the detailed security status of pdns-recursor please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/pdns-recursor

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/



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Package: pdns-recursor
CVE ID: CVE-2024-25590

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