Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0272 (pdns)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0272: Updated pdns & pdns-recursor packages fix a denial of service vulnerability 
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Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:48:14 +0200
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MGASA-2014-0272 - Updated pdns & pdns-recursor packages fix a denial of service vulnerability

Publication date: 20 Jun 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0272.html
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:
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http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/02/06/related-to-recent-dos...
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announc...
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13521

SRPMS:
- 4/core/pdns-3.3.1-2.1.mga4
- 4/core/pdns-recursor-3.5.3-2.1.mga4
- 3/core/pdns-3.3.1-1.2.mga3
- 3/core/pdns-recursor-3.5.1-1.1.mga3