Debian Long Term Support / LTS Security Information / 2017 / Security Information -- DLA-788-1 pdns-recursor

Debian Security Advisory

DLA-788-1 pdns-recursor -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

16 Jan 2017

Affected Packages:

pdns-recursor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9139.

More information:

Florian Heinz and Martin Kluge reported that pdns-recursor, a recursive DNS server, parses all records present in a query regardless of whether they are needed or even legitimate, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU usage load on the pdns server, resulting in a partial denial of service if the system becomes overloaded.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 3.3-3+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdns-recursor packages.

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