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.
Published: 2018-07-27
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4063-1 pdns-recursor security update
EUVD 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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Debian Debian Linux
Powerdns Recursor
cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-27T15:29:00.343

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:14:06.713

Link: CVE-2017-15120

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