5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.021 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.0%
Debian Security Advisory DSA-2515-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde
July 19, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
Package : nsd3
Vulnerability : null pointer dereference
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2012-2978
Marek Vavruลกa 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.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: [email protected]
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 6 | all | nsd3 | <ย 3.2.5-1.squeeze2 | nsd3_3.2.5-1.squeeze2_all.deb |