Debian: New PowerDNS packages reduce DNS spoofing risk

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Debian: New PowerDNS packages reduce DNS spoofing risk

LinuxSecurity.com: Brian Dowling discovered that the PowerDNS authoritative name server does not respond to DNS queries which contain certain characters, increasing the risk of successful DNS spoofing (CVE-2008-3337). This update changes PowerDNS to respond with SERVFAIL responses instead.

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