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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3347-1 pdns -- security update

Date Reported:

02 Sep 2015

Affected Packages:

pdns

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5230.

More information:

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.

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.