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pkg/46727: CVE-2012-2978 - denial of service for net/nsd
>Number: 46727
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: CVE-2012-2978 - denial of service for net/nsd
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 20 02:15:00 +0000 2012
>Originator: Lloyd Parkes
>Release: 6.0_BETA2
>Organization:
Must Have Coffee
>Environment:
NetBSD thallid.must-have-coffee.gen.nz 6.0_BETA2 NetBSD 6.0_BETA2
(XEN3PAE_DOMU) #0: Mon Jun 18 04:48:20 NZST 2012
lloyd@bob:/vol/scratch/build6/obj.i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3PAE_DOMU i386
>Description:
Marek Vavruša and Lubos Slovak discovered that NSD, an authoritative
domain name server, is not properly handling non-standard DNS packets.
his can result in a NULL pointer dereference and crash the handling
process. A remote attacker can abuse this flaw to perform denial of
service attacks.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
Update to version 3.2.12 of nsd. No changes need to be made to our package
patches. The new distinfo is:
SHA1 (nsd-3.2.12.tar.gz) = dd8606a05525f6a493dfacb7ddfa7e1fa3c6a85b
RMD160 (nsd-3.2.12.tar.gz) = e73cb29c51d7bec6fd83b3a8571a72773ea5696e
Size (nsd-3.2.12.tar.gz) = 889490 bytes
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