CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0024
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-01-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
MaraDNS before 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.x before 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired (RD) bit set.
Affected configurations
• maradns maradns (< 1.3.07.12)
• maradns maradns (>= 1.4.0 < 1.4.08)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/13 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://samiam.org/blog/20111229.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771428 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/13 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://samiam.org/blog/20111229.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771428 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory