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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3307-1 pdns-recursor -- security update

Date Reported:

09 Jul 2015

Affected Packages:

pdns-recursor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5470.

More information:

Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that the patch applied to pdns-recursor, a recursive DNS server, fixing CVE-2015-1868, was insufficient in some cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service-affecting CPU spikes and in some cases a crash).

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.2-2+deb8u2.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.7.3-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.7.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdns-recursor packages.