Package : mydns Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0351 BugTraq ID : 16431 Debian Bug : 348826
NISCC reported that MyDNS, a DNS server using an SQL database for data storage, can be tricked into an infinite loop by a remote attacker and hence cause a denial of service condition.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain mydns packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.0-4sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.0+pre-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your mydns package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------