A vulnerability has been identified in dproxy-nexgen, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is due to a buffer overflow error in the "dns_decode_reverse_name()" [dns_decode.c] function when processing packets sent to port 53/UDP, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of a vulnerable server.
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Vulnerability reported by mu-b
ChangeLog
2007-04-02 : Initial release
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