CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8601
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("performance degradations") via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by resolving domains hosted by ezdns.it.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• powerdns recursor (<= 3.6.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html Third Party Advisory
- http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2014-02/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3096 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71545 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031310 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html Third Party Advisory
- http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2014-02/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3096 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71545 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031310 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry