CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8702
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The DNS::GetResult function in dns.cpp in InspIRCd before 2.0.19 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (netsplit) via an invalid character in a PTR response, as demonstrated by a "\032" (whitespace) character in a hostname.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• inspircd inspircd (<= 2.0.18)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3527 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.inspircd.org/2015/04/16/v2019-released.html Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/6058483d9fbc1b904d5ae7cfea47bfcde5c5b559 Exploit
- https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/issues/1033 Exploit
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-13 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3527 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.inspircd.org/2015/04/16/v2019-released.html Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/6058483d9fbc1b904d5ae7cfea47bfcde5c5b559 Exploit
- https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/issues/1033 Exploit
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-13 security.gentoo.org