CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0038

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The DNS implementation of PowerDNS 2.9.16 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed DNS packet with a label length byte with an incorrect offset, which could trigger an infinite loop.

Affected configurations

• powerdns powerdns (<= 2.9.16) • powerdns powerdns 2.0 rc1 • powerdns powerdns 2.8 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.0 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.1 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.2 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.3a • powerdns powerdns 2.9.4 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.5 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.6 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.7 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.8 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.10 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.11 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.12 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.13 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.14 • powerdns powerdns 2.9.15

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