Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pdns  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2010-PDNS-1031593
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed30 Jul 2019

Introduced: 30 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-10163  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

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

A Vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.9, 4.0.8 allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.