CVE-2014-7210 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pdns (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-PDNS-629951
- published27 Jun 2018
- disclosed26 Jun 2025
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2014-7210 (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.
pdns specific as packaged in Debian in version before 3.3.1-1 creates a too privileged MySQL user. It was discovered that the maintainer scripts of pdns-backend-mysql grant too wide database permissions for the pdns user. Other backends are not affected.