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pdnsd DNS Query Handling Memory Leak Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19835
Release Date: 2006-04-26
Last Update: 2006-05-03
Popularity: 6,697 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:pdnsd 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in pdnsd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak error within the handling of the QTYPE and QCLASS DNS queries. This can be exploited to cause pdnsd to consume large amount of memory, thus causing it to crash or cause the system to become unstable.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.2.4.

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