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iodine Denial of Service Security Problems
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21872
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Release Date:
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2006-09-14
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Last Update:
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2006-09-20
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Unknown
DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | iodine 0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-4831 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Some potential security problems have been reported in iodine, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The security problems are caused due to some errors in the parsing of domain names for received DNS queries. This can be exploited to cause an eternal loop or write beyond a buffer.
The security problems have been reported in version 0.3.1. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 0.3.2:
http://code.kryo.se/iodine/iodine-0.3.2.tar.gz
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2006-09-19: Updated "Description" section.
2006-09-20: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://code.kryo.se/iodine/CHANGELOG.txt
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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. iodine Client Handshake Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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