Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for pdns. This fixes a weakness and a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for pdns
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33264
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33264/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Spoofing, DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for pdns. This fixes a weakness and a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
spoofing attacks or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
For more information:
SA31407
SA32979
SOLUTION:
Update to "net-dns/pdns-2.9.21.2" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GLSA-200812-19:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-19.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA31407:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31407/
SA32979:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32979/
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