CVE-2006-4251

Name	CVE-2006-4251
Description	Buffer overflow in PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed TCP DNS query that prevents Recursor from properly calculating the TCP DNS query length.
Source	CVE (at NVD; oss-sec, fulldisc, OSVDB, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, more)
References	DSA-1211
NVD severity	high (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	398557
Debian/oldstable	not vulnerable.
Debian/stable	not vulnerable.
Debian/testing	not vulnerable.
Debian/unstable	not vulnerable.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
pdns (PTS)	squeeze (security), squeeze	2.9.22-8+squeeze1	fixed
	wheezy	3.1-4.1	fixed
	jessie, sid	3.4.1-4	fixed
pdns-recursor (PTS)	squeeze	3.2-4	fixed
	squeeze (lts)	3.2-4+deb6u1	fixed
	wheezy, wheezy (security)	3.3-3+deb7u1	fixed
	jessie, sid	3.6.2-2	fixed

The information above is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
pdns	source	(unstable)	2.9.20-4	high
pdns	source	sarge	2.9.17-13sarge3	high	DSA-1211
pdns-recursor	source	(unstable)	3.1.4-1	high		398557

Recursor module has been moved to pdns-recursor