MGASA-2014-0272

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    MGASA-2014-0272

    Published: 20 Jun 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated pdns & pdns-recursor packages fix a denial of service vulnerability

    Details: Updated pdns and pdns-recursor packages fix security vulnerability: PowerDNS recursor is vulnerable to a denial of service due to a bug that causes it to exhaust the maximum number of file descriptors that are available to a process. The pdns and pdns-recursor packages have been patched to fix this issue.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0272.html, http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/02/06/related-to-recent-dos-attacks-recursor-configuration-file-guidance/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128851.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13521

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pdns

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/pdns?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.3.1-1.2.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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