Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20167072000
Revision Date:2017-01-13Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-7072 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - medium.
Description:PowerDNS Authoritative Server allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server. If the web server runs out of file descriptors, it triggers an exception and terminates the whole PowerDNS process.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-7072
Platform(s):Ubuntu 17.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) is installed.
  • AND The 'pdns' package in artful is affected. An update containing the fix has been completed and is pending publication (note: '4.0.2-1').
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