[ GLSA 201311-18 ] Unbound: Denial of Service

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Unbound: Denial of Service (GLSA 201311-18)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: November 28, 2013
Bug(s): #395287
ID: 201311-18

Synopsis

Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been found in
Unbound.


Background

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Affected Packages

Package: net-dns/unbound
Vulnerable: < 1.4.13_p2
Unaffected: >= 1.4.13_p2
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Unbound. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.


Impact

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via
a specially crafted response.


Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Unbound users should upgrade to the latest version: