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Gentoo GLSA-201110-12 Normal Severity: Unbound Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2011
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Unbound has several Denial of Service weaknesses. Take action to update and safeguard against potential threats, ensuring the reliability of your system.
Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities were found in Unbound.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in unbound. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo service disruption normal severity dns service unbound

Resolution

All Unbound users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/unbound-1.4.10"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0969 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0969 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-1922 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1922

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201110-12
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Unbound: Denial of Service
Date: October 15, 2011
Bugs: #309117, #368981
ID: 201110-12

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo service disruption normal severity dns service unbound

Synopsis

Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities were found in Unbound.

Background

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dns/unbound < 1.4.10 >= 1.4.10

Impact

===== A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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