Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pdns-recursor  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2010-PDNSRECURSOR-1032818
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed29 Nov 2018

Introduced: 29 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-10851  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (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-recursor package and not the pdns-recursor package as distributed by Ubuntu.

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service.