Fedora: 2009-5191 Moderate: NSD DNS Server Overflow Exploit
fedora
May 19, 2009
Security release
Summary
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).
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.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon May 18 2009 Paul Wouters
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-5191 2009-05-19 23:55:54
Name : nsd Product : Fedora 10 Version : 3.2.2 Release : 2.fc10 URL : https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/about/ 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).
Update Instructions
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 .
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Name: nsd
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 3.2.2
Release: 2.fc10
Summary: Fast and lean authoritative DNS Name Server
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