Net::DNS before 0.60, a Perl module, allows remote attackers to...

Vulnerability Description

Net::DNS before 0.60, a Perl module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a malformed compressed DNS packet with self-referencing pointers, which triggers an infinite loop.

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/26231
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26417
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29354
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26014
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26012
• http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=27285
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10595
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1515
• http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Changes.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018376
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_sr.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26543
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-483-1
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:146
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0674.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26055
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26211
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26075
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24669
• http://osvdb.org/37054
• ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070701-01-P.asc
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25829
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-06.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473871/100/0/threaded