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CVE-2015-1868

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
18/05/2015
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to itself.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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