Gentoo: GLSA-200708-06 Normal: Net::DNS DoS and Cache Threats
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August 11, 2007
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Net::DNS Perl module, allowing for a Denial of Service and a cache poisoning attack.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-06
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Net::DNS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: August 11, 2007
Bugs: #184029
ID: 200708-06
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Net::DNS Perl
module, allowing for a Denial of Service and a cache poisoning attack.
Background
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Net::DNS is a Perl implementation of a DNS resolver.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-perl/Net-DNS < 0.60 >= 0.60
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hjp discovered an error when handling DNS query IDs which make them
partially predictable. Steffen Ullrich discovered an error in the
dn_expand() function ...
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