Gentoo 200812-19: PowerDNS DoS and Cache Spoofing Risks
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December 19, 2008
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in PowerDNS, possibly leading to a Denial of Service and easing cache poisoning attacks.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-19
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: PowerDNS: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 19, 2008
Bugs: #234032, #247079
ID: 200812-19
Synopsis
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Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in PowerDNS, possibly leading
to a Denial of Service and easing cache poisoning attacks.
Background
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The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses
a flexible backend architecture.
Affected packages
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1 net-dns/pdns < 2.9.21.2 >= 2.9.21.2
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Daniel Drown reported an error when receiving a HINFO CH query
(CVE-2008-5277). B...
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