Advisories » MGASA-2014-0272

Updated pdns & pdns-recursor packages fix a denial of service vulnerability

Publication date: 20 Jun 2014
Modification date: 20 Jun 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4

Description

Updated pdns and pdns-recursor packages fix security vulnerability:

PowerDNS recursor is vulnerable to a denial of service due to a bug that
causes it to exhaust the maximum number of file descriptors that are
available  to a process.

The pdns and pdns-recursor packages have been patched to fix this issue.
                

References

• http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/02/06/related-to-recent-dos-attacks-recursor-configuration-file-guidance/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128851.html
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13521

SRPMS

3/core

• pdns-3.3.1-1.2.mga3
• pdns-recursor-3.5.1-1.1.mga3

4/core

• pdns-3.3.1-2.1.mga4
• pdns-recursor-3.5.3-2.1.mga4