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maradns: denial of service

Package(s):

maradns

CVE #(s):

CVE-2011-0520

Created:

March 21, 2011

Updated:

November 21, 2011

Description:

From the Debian advisory:

Witold Baryluk discovered that MaraDNS, a simple security-focused Domain Name Service server, may overflow an internal buffer when handling requests with a large number of labels, causing a server crash and the consequent denial of service.

Alerts:

Gentoo	201111-06	2011-11-20
Debian	DSA-2196-1	2011-03-19

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