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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2196-1 (maradns)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to maradns announced via advisory DSA 2196-1.

Insight

Insight

Witold Baryluk discovered that MaraDNS, a simple security-focused Domain Name Service server, may overflow an internal buffer when handling requests with a large number of labels, causing a server crash and the consequent denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.07.09-2.1. For the stable distribution (squeeze) and greater this problem had already been fixed in version 1.4.03-1.1.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your maradns packages.

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