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TITLE:
PowerDNS CH HINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32979

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32979/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PowerDNS 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/929/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing CH HINFO
queries and can be exploited to cause a crash.

Successful exploitation may require that the server is running in
single threaded mode (i.e. "distributor-threads=1").

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.9.21.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to 2.9.21.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Daniel Drown.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2008-03.html

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