CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-37428

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-08-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-08-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-459

Description

PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specific properties.

Affected configurations

• powerdns recursor (>= 4.5.0 < 4.5.10) • powerdns recursor (>= 4.6.0 < 4.6.3) • powerdns recursor (>= 4.7.0 < 4.7.2) • fedoraproject fedora 36

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup weakness

References