Gentoo 200812-19: PowerDNS DoS and Cache Spoofing Risks

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 ======= Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in PowerDNS, possibly leading to a Denial of Service and easing cache poisoning attacks.
Background ========= The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dns/pdns < 2.9.21.2 >= 2.9.21.2
========== Daniel Drown reported an error when receiving a HINFO CH query (CVE-2008-5277). B...