CVE-2025-30195 Affecting pdns-recursor package, versions <5.2.1-1
Threat Intelligence
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- published8 Apr 2025
- disclosed7 Apr 2025
Introduced: 7 Apr 2025
CVE-2025-30195 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:13 pdns-recursor to version 5.2.1-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pdns-recursor package and not the pdns-recursor package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.
An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Processing and caching results for these sets can lead to an illegal memory accesses and crash of the Recursor, causing a denial of service.
The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 5.2.1 version.
We would like to thank Volodymyr Ilyin for bringing this issue to our attention.