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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6341

Original release date:12/20/2007

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Net/DNS/RR/A.pm in Net::DNS 0.60 build 654, as used in packages such as SpamAssassin and OTRS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program "croak") via a crafted DNS response.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/07/2008)

Red Hat does not consider this flaw to be a security issue. For more information please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426437

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30316

Hyperlink:https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30316

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1019104

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019104

External Source: BID

Name: 26902

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26902

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/6I00E0UKKQ.html

Hyperlink:http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/6I00E0UKKQ.html