CVE-2015-5311 (GCVE-0-2015-5311)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
VLAI
Summary
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.4 before 3.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and server crash) via crafted query packets.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-11-09 00:00
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