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<glsa id="200502-15">
  <title>PowerDNS: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability in PowerDNS could lead to a temporary Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">PowerDNS</product>
  <announced>2005-02-13</announced>
  <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
  <bug>80713</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-dns/pdns" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.9.17</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.9.17</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses
    a flexible backend architecture.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A vulnerability has been reported in the DNSPacket::expand method of
    dnspacket.cc.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could cause a temporary Denial of Service by sending a
    random stream of bytes to the PowerDNS Daemon.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All PowerDNS users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-dns/pdns-2.9.17"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-2-9-17">PowerDNS Release Notes</uri>
    <uri link="http://ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/cvstrac/pdns/tktview?tn=21">PowerDNS Ticket #21</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0428">CVE-2005-0428</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-02-13T17:12:23Z">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-02-13T17:14:58Z">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
</glsa>
