Debian Security Advisory DSA 1795-1 (ldns)

The remote host is missing an update to ldns announced via advisory DSA 1795-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb17951.nasl 6615 2017-07-07 12:09:52Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1795-1 ldns Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft Inc...

Debian DSA-1795-1 : ldns - buffer overflow

Stefan Kaltenbrunner discovered that ldns, a library and set of utilities to facilitate DNS programming, did not correctly implement a buffer boundary check in its RR DNS record parser. This weakness could enable overflow of a heap buffer if a maliciously-crafted record is parsed, potentially...