Description
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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Remediation
No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.
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Tracking
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Debian DSA |
DSA-4063-1 | pdns-recursor security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-6581 | 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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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T19:50:16.333Z
Reserved: 2017-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-15120
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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-07-27T15:29:00.343
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:14:06.713
Link: CVE-2017-15120
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Debian DSA
EUVD