GSD-2017-15120

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20
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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.
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CVE-2017-15120
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