Vulnerability CVE-2022-37428


Published: 2022-08-23

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.

 References:
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2022-02.html
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/lua-config/protobuf.html

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