CVE-2015-5470

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 2, 2015
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 10, 2015

Description

The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that refers to itself. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/
[oss-security] 20150710 Re: Follow up: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2015-01mailing-list
[oss-security] 20150707 Follow up: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2015-01mailing-list

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