CVE-2017-15120

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Jul 27, 2018
Updated
Aug 5, 2024
Reserved
Oct 8, 2017

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.07.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
pdns-recursorPowerDNS
  • 4.0.8Affected

References

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