Vulnerabilites related to PowerDNS - pdns-recursor
cve-2017-15120
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-27 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:50
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15120 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063 | vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN | |
| http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382 | mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335 | vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ | PowerDNS | pdns-recursor |
Version: 4.0.8 |
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