Gentoo: 200901-03 Critical: pdnsd Cache Poisoning And DoS Exploit

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: pdnsd: Denial of Service and cache poisoning Date: January 11, 2009 Bugs: #231285 ID: 200901-03

Synopsis ======= Two errors in pdnsd allow for Denial of Service and cache poisoning.
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 < 1.2.7 >= 1.2.7
========== Two issues have been reported in pdnsd:
* The p_exec_query() function in src/dns_query.c does not properly handle many entries in the answer section of a DNS ...