Vulnerability CVE-2015-1868
Published: 2015-05-18

Description:
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to itself.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
PowerDNS decompression bug can cause crashes
Aki Tuomi
23.04.2015

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Powerdns -> Authoritative 
Powerdns -> Recursor 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156648.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156655.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156667.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156680.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156725.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156743.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3306
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3307
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74306
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032220
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