CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1193
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-02-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Description
The resolver in PowerDNS Recursor (aka pdns_recursor) 3.3 overwrites cached server names and TTL values in NS records during the processing of a response to an A record query, which allows remote attackers to trigger continued resolvability of revoked domain names via a "ghost domain names" attack.
Affected configurations
• powerdns powerdns recursor 3.3
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102729.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104173.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104177.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.isc.org/files/imce/ghostdomain_camera.pdf Exploit
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102729.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104173.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104177.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.isc.org/files/imce/ghostdomain_camera.pdf Exploit