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Debian: CVE-2019-10163: pdns -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-10163: pdns -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/24/2019
Created
06/25/2019
Added
06/24/2019
Modified
02/10/2020

Description

A Vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.9, 4.0.8 allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-pdns

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