CVE-2017-15120
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PowerDNS | pdns-recursor | 4.0.8 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-476: CWE-476
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15120
- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15120
- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335
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