CVE-2007-3409 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070701-01-P.asc http://osvdb.org/37054 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=27285 http://secunia.com/advisories/25829 http://secunia.com/advisories/26012 http://secunia.com/advisories/26014 http://secunia.com/advisories/26055 http://secunia.com/advisories/26075 http://secunia.com/advisories/26211 http://secunia.com/advisories/26231 http://secunia.com/advisories/26417 http://secunia.com/advisories/26543 http://secunia.com/advisories/29354 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1515 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-06.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:146 http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Changes.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0674.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473871/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24669 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018376 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-483-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10595