MyDNS: Denial of Service

MyDNS: Denial of Service MyDNS contains a vulnerability that may lead to a Denial of Service attack. MyDNS January 30, 2006 January 30, 2006: 01 119548 remote 1.1.0 1.1.0

MyDNS is a DNS server using a MySQL database as a backend. It is designed to allow for fast updates and small resource usage.

MyDNS contains an unspecified flaw that may allow a remote Denial of Service.

An attacker could cause a Denial of Service by sending malformed DNS queries to the MyDNS server.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All MyDNS users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/mydns-1.1.0"

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