CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-3409

7.5 HIGH Published 2007-06-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-06-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-674

Description

Net::DNS before 0.60, a Perl module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a malformed compressed DNS packet with self-referencing pointers, which triggers an infinite loop.

Affected configurations

• net-dns net\ \ (< 0.60) • debian debian linux 3.1 • debian debian linux 4.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References