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Gentoo GLSA 200502-15 Normal: PowerDNS Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2005
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PowerDNS Denial of Service flaw outlined in Gentoo's GLSA 200502-15 notice, providing instructions for necessary updates.
A vulnerability in PowerDNS could lead to a temporary Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: PowerDNS: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: February 13, 2005 Bugs: #80713 ID: 200502-15

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in PowerDNS could lead to a temporary Denial of Service.
Background ========= The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dns/pdns < 2.9.17 >= 2.9.17
========== A vulnerability has been reported in the DNSPacket::expand method of dnspacket.cc.
Impact ===== An attacker could cause a temporary Denial of Service by se...

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