Bug 475440 (CVE-2008-5277) - CVE-2008-5277 pdns: DoS (daemon crash) via a CH HINFO query.
Summary: CVE-2008-5277 pdns: DoS (daemon crash) via a CH HINFO query.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-5277
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 472074
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-09 08:45 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:28 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-03-29 08:47:28 UTC
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CVE-2008-5277 patch against 2.9.21.1 (1.58 KB, patch)
2008-12-09 08:48 UTC, Jan Lieskovsky 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2008-12-09 08:45:02 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-5277 to
the following vulnerability:

PowerDNS before 2.9.21.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (daemon crash) via a CH HINFO query.

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5277
http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2008-03.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021304
http://secunia.com/advisories/32979
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47076
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-12-09 08:48:18 UTC 
Created attachment 326278 [details]
CVE-2008-5277 patch against 2.9.21.1
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-12-09 08:54:58 UTC 
According to BZ#472074 Fedora EPEL4 and EPEL5 pdns packages has been already
updated.

The Fedora release of 10 also already contains fixed pdns packages.

This issue affects the versions of the pdns package, as shippped
with Fedora releases of 8 and 9. Please update.
Comment 4 Ruben Kerkhof 2008-12-09 19:11:06 UTC 
Not true, packages for F-8 en F-9 have been pushed to stable on 2008-11-26
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