CVE-2022-37428

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Aug 23, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Aug 5, 2022

Description

PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specific properties.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:N/I:N/PR:L/S:U/UI:N	mitre

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/lua-config/protobuf.html
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2022-02.html
FEDORA-2022-d1dcd9b046vendor-advisory

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