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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3347-1 (pdns - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Pyry Hakulinen and Ashish Shakla at Automattic discovered that pdns, an authoritative DNS server, was incorrectly processing some DNS packets. This would enable a remote attacker to trigger a DoS by sending specially crafted packets causing the server to crash.
Affected Software
Affected Software
pdns on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.1-4+deb8u3. For the testing distribution (stretch) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your pdns packages.