Resource Management Errors Affecting powerdns package, versions [,3.6.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POWERDNS-2371693
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Nov 2015

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

How to fix?

Upgrade powerdns to version 3.6.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. 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.

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CVSS Base Scores

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