CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5470
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-11-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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-399
Description
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that refers to itself. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868.
Affected configurations
• powerdns authoritative (<= 3.3.2)
• powerdns authoritative 3.4.0
• powerdns authoritative 3.4.1
• powerdns authoritative 3.4.2
• powerdns authoritative 3.4.3
• powerdns authoritative 3.4.4
• powerdns recursor (<= 3.6.3)
• powerdns recursor 3.7.1
• powerdns recursor 3.7.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/07/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/10/8 www.openwall.com
- https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/07/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/10/8 www.openwall.com
- https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ Patch, Vendor Advisory