CVE-2012-0024 Information

Description

MaraDNS before 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.x before 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired (RD) bit set.

Reference

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/13 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/6 http://samiam.org/blog/20111229.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771428