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Gentoo: GLSA 200605-10 High: pdnsd Denial of Service and Code Execution

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2006
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Critical alert issued for Gentoo's pdnsd flaw, posing risks for Denial of Service and potential code execution threats.
pdnsd is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may result in arbitrary code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: pdnsd: Denial of Service and potential arbitrary code execution Date: May 10, 2006 Bugs: #131341 ID: 200605-10

Synopsis ======= pdnsd is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that may result in arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching that is designed to cope with unreachable DNS servers.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dns/pdnsd < 1.2.4 >= 1.2.4
========== The pdnsd team has discovered an unspecified buffer overflow vulnerability. The PROTOS DNS Test Suite, by the Oulu Uni...

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