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title: "CVE-2007-6341\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-6341

Publication date 20 December 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

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.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-6341?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| libnet-dns-perl | 7.10 gutsy | Fixed 0.60-1ubuntu0.1 |
| 7.04 feisty | Fixed 0.59-1ubuntu0.2 |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 0.57-1ubuntu1.1 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 0.53-2ubuntu1.1 |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

securiteam.com has reproducer
should be fixed in 0.63-- check here
http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Changes.html

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6341)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6341)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-6341)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6341)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-594-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-594-1)
+ libnet-dns-perl vulnerability
+ 26 March 2008

### Other references

* <http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/6I00E0UKKQ.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6341>