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ghsa-8c2c-pfjh-2jc2

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 02:14

Modified

2025-04-12 13:04

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.

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  "id": "GHSA-8c2c-pfjh-2jc2",
  "modified": "2025-04-12T13:04:26Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T02:14:38Z",
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CVE-2016-5427 (GCVE-0-2016-5427)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-09-21 14:00

Modified

2024-08-06 01:01

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/commit/881b5b03a590198d03008e4200dd00cc537712f3	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036761	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3664	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92917	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/3	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2016-01/	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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