Summary
The remote host is missing an update to nsd3
announced via advisory DSA 2515-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202515-1
Insight
Marek Vavrusa and Lubos Slovak discovered that NSD, an authoritative domain name server, is not properly handling non-standard DNS packets.
his 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.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.5-1.squeeze2.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.12-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your nsd3 packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-2978 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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