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  Severity: Normal
     Title: PowerDNS: Denial of Service vulnerability
      Date: February 13, 2005
      Bugs: #80713
        ID: 200502-15

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability in PowerDNS could lead to a temporary Denial of
Service.

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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     Package       /  Vulnerable  /                         Unaffected
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  1  net-dns/pdns      < 2.9.17                              >= 2.9.17

Description
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A vulnerability has been reported in the DNSPacket::expand method of
dnspacket.cc.

Impact
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An attacker could cause a temporary Denial of Service by sending a
random stream of bytes to the PowerDNS Daemon.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All PowerDNS users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/pdns-2.9.17"

References
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  [ 1 ] PowerDNS Release Notes
        https://doc.powerdns.com/md/changelog/
  [ 2 ] PowerDNS Ticket #21
        
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200502-15

Concerns?
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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/.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/