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nsd3: denial of service

Package(s):nsd3 CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2978
Created:July 19, 2012 Updated:August 10, 2012
Description:

From the Debian advisory:

Marek VavruĊĦa and Lubos Slovak discovered that NSD, an authoritative domain name server, is not properly handling non-standard DNS packets. This can result in a NULL pointer dereference and crash the handling process. A remote attacker can abuse this flaw to perform denial of service attacks.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2515-1 2012-07-19
Fedora FEDORA-2012-10893 2012-07-30
Fedora FEDORA-2012-10887 2012-07-30
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11207 2012-08-09
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11203 2012-08-09
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