CVE-2012-0024

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 8, 2012
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Dec 7, 2011

Description

MaraDNS before 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.x before 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired (RD) bit set.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://samiam.org/blog/20111229.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771428
[oss-security] 20120103 CVE request: maradns hash table collision cpu dosmailing-list
[oss-security] 20120103 Re: CVE request: maradns hash table collision cpu dosmailing-list

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