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| Secunia ID | |
| CVE-ID | |
| Release Date |
12 Mar 2010 |
| Last Change |
17 Mar 2010 |
| Criticality | |
| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch |
| Software |
Unbound 1.x |
| Where | |
| Impact |
DoS (Denial of Service)This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system. |
| Description |
A vulnerability has been reported in Unbound, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to a memory alignment error, which can potentially be exploited to cause a crash on 64bit platforms. The vulnerability is reported in version prior to 1.4.3. |
| Solution |
Update to version 1.4.3. |
| Reported by |
Reported by the vendor. |
| Original Advisory |
http://www.unbound.net/pipermail/unbound-users/2010-March/001057.html |