MaraDNS Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:3852

Info

MaraDNS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3852
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 10 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 10 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Published in the MaraDNS changelog.
Vulnerable: MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.9 .00
MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.8.99
MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.5.30
MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.5.29
MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.5.28
Not Vulnerable: MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.9 .01
MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.5.31

Discussion

MaraDNS Denial of Service Vulnerability

MaraDNS is secure, authoritative DNS server. It was originally written for Linux and Unix based systems, and has been ported to Microsoft Windows. MaraDNS has been designed to be secure, and includes features such as a buffer overflow resistant string library and the requirement to run as a non privileged user in a chroot environment.

A denial of service vulnerability exists in some versions of MaraDNS. It is possible to affect availability of the server, through exploitation of an error in the compression handling for DNS communications. Further details on this vulnerability are not available at this time.

Earlier versions of MaraDNS share this vulnerability.

Exploit / POC

MaraDNS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

MaraDNS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
An updated version has been made available:


MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.5.28

MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.5.29

MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.5.30

MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.8.99

MaraDNS MaraDNS 0.9 .00

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