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Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pdns-recursor  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-PDNSRECURSOR-627405
  • published18 May 2015
  • disclosed18 May 2015
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Introduced: 18 May 2015

CVE-2015-1868  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (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-recursor package and not the pdns-recursor package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to itself.