CVE-2012-0206

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PowerDNS (pdns) Authoritative Server versions prior to 2.9.22.5 PowerDNS (pdns) Authoritative Server versions 3.x prior to 3.0.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a packet loop, via crafted UDP DNS responses. This is due to a problem in the common startup.cc component of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.9.22.5, update to version 2.9.22.5 or later. For versions 3.x prior to 3.0.1, update to version 3.0.1 or later.