Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pdns-recursor  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1710-PDNSRECURSOR-625593
  • published2 Nov 2015
  • disclosed2 Nov 2015

Introduced: 2 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-5470  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

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 before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that refers to itself. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868.