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SUSE: CVE-2016-5426: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-5426: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/23/2016
Modified
01/26/2018

Description

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a long qname.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-pdns
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-ldap
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-ldap-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-lua
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-lua-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-mydns
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-mydns-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-mysql
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-mysql-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-postgresql
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-postgresql-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-sqlite3
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-backend-sqlite3-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-pdns-debugsource

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