CVE-2014-3614 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor (aka pdns_recursor) 3.6.x before 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unknown sequence of malformed packets.

Published: 2014-09-19

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:powerdns_recursor:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

Additional remediation guidance may be available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2014-3578	Unspecified vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor (aka pdns_recursor) 3.6.x before 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unknown sequence of malformed packets.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00009.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/09/10/security-update-powerdns-recursor-3-6-1
http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/589
http://secunia.com/advisories/61027
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95947

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Powerdns Powerdns Recursor

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2014-09-19T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:50:17.492Z

Reserved: 2014-05-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-3614

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-09-19T14:55:08.273

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-3614

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

{"containers": {"cna": {"affected": [{"product": "n/a", "vendor": "n/a", "versions": [{"status": "affected", "version": "n/a"}]}], "datePublic": "2014-09-08T00:00:00.000Z", "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Unspecified vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor (aka pdns_recursor) 3.6.x before 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unknown sequence of malformed packets."}], "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"description": "n/a", "lang": "en", "type": "text"}]}], "providerMetadata": {"dateUpdated": "2017-08-28T12:57:01.000Z", "orgId": "53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749", "shortName": "redhat"}, "references": [{"name": "[oss-security] 20140912 PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0 can be crashed remotely (CVE-2014-3614)", "tags": ["mailing-list", "x_refsource_MLIST"], "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/589"}, {"name": "recursor-cve20143614-dos(95947)", "tags": ["vdb-entry", "x_refsource_XF"], "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95947"}, {"name": "61027", "tags": ["third-party-advisory", "x_refsource_SECUNIA"], "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/61027"}, {"tags": ["x_refsource_CONFIRM"], "url": "http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/09/10/security-update-powerdns-recursor-3-6-1"}, {"tags": ["x_refsource_CONFIRM"], "url": "http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html"}], "x_legacyV4Record": {"CVE_data_meta": {"ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2014-3614", "STATE": "PUBLIC"}, "affects": {"vendor": {"vendor_data": [{"product": {"product_data": [{"product_name": "n/a", "version": {"version_data": [{"version_value": "n/a"}]}}]}, "vendor_name": "n/a"}]}}, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": {"description_data": [{"lang": "eng", "value": "Unspecified vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor (aka pdns_recursor) 3.6.x before 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unknown sequence of malformed packets."}]}, "problemtype": {"problemtype_data": [{"description": [{"lang": "eng", "value": "n/a"}]}]}, "references": {"reference_data": [{"name": "[oss-security] 20140912 PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0 can be crashed remotely (CVE-2014-3614)", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/589"}, {"name": "recursor-cve20143614-dos(95947)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95947"}, {"name": "61027", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/61027"}, {"name": "http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/09/10/security-update-powerdns-recursor-3-6-1", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/09/10/security-update-powerdns-recursor-3-6-1"}, {"name": "http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html"}]}}}, "adp": [{"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "shortName": "CVE", "dateUpdated": "2024-08-06T10:50:17.492Z"}, "title": "CVE Program Container", "references": [{"name": "[oss-security] 20140912 PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0 can be crashed remotely (CVE-2014-3614)", "tags": ["mailing-list", "x_refsource_MLIST", "x_transferred"], "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/589"}, {"name": "recursor-cve20143614-dos(95947)", "tags": ["vdb-entry", "x_refsource_XF", "x_transferred"], "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95947"}, {"name": "61027", "tags": ["third-party-advisory", "x_refsource_SECUNIA", "x_transferred"], "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/61027"}, {"tags": ["x_refsource_CONFIRM", "x_transferred"], "url": "http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/09/10/security-update-powerdns-recursor-3-6-1"}, {"tags": ["x_refsource_CONFIRM", "x_transferred"], "url": "http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html"}]}]}, "cveMetadata": {"assignerOrgId": "53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749", "assignerShortName": "redhat", "cveId": "CVE-2014-3614", "datePublished": "2014-09-19T14:00:00.000Z", "dateReserved": "2014-05-14T00:00:00.000Z", "dateUpdated": "2024-08-06T10:50:17.492Z", "state": "PUBLISHED"}, "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.1"}

{"configurations": [{"nodes": [{"cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:powerdns_recursor:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "matchCriteriaId": "7A1F6676-5085-40E0-9481-889C3331418A", "vulnerable": true}], "negate": false, "operator": "OR"}]}], "cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Unspecified vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor (aka pdns_recursor) 3.6.x before 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unknown sequence of malformed packets."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "Vulnerabilidad no especificada en PowerDNS Recursor (tambi\u00e9n conocida como pdns_recursor) 3.6.x anterior a 3.6.1 permite a atacantes remotos causar una denegaci\u00f3n de servicio (ca\u00edda) a trav\u00e9s de una secuencia desconocida de paquetes malformados."}], "id": "CVE-2014-3614", "lastModified": "2026-05-06T22:30:45.220", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV2": [{"acInsufInfo": false, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "cvssData": {"accessComplexity": "LOW", "accessVector": "NETWORK", "authentication": "NONE", "availabilityImpact": "PARTIAL", "baseScore": 5.0, "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P", "version": "2.0"}, "exploitabilityScore": 10.0, "impactScore": 2.9, "obtainAllPrivilege": false, "obtainOtherPrivilege": false, "obtainUserPrivilege": false, "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary", "userInteractionRequired": false}]}, "published": "2014-09-19T14:55:08.273", "references": [{"source": "secalert@redhat.com", "tags": ["Patch", "Vendor Advisory"], "url": "http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/09/10/security-update-powerdns-recursor-3-6-1"}, {"source": "secalert@redhat.com", "url": "http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html"}, {"source": "secalert@redhat.com", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/589"}, {"source": "secalert@redhat.com", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/61027"}, {"source": "secalert@redhat.com", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95947"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "tags": ["Patch", "Vendor Advisory"], "url": "http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/09/10/security-update-powerdns-recursor-3-6-1"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "tags": ["Patch"], "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/589"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/61027"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95947"}], "sourceIdentifier": "secalert@redhat.com", "vulnStatus": "Modified", "weaknesses": [{"description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "NVD-CWE-noinfo"}], "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}