Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pdns  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-PDNS-404647
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed1 Nov 2018

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2016-2120  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pdns package and not the pdns package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3.4.10, 4.0.1 allowing an authorized user to crash the server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control then sending a DNS query for that record. The issue is due to an integer overflow when checking if the content of the record matches the expected size, allowing an attacker to cause a read past the buffer boundary.