Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-9217  

A security issue has been found in systemd-resolved, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (daemon crash via NULL-pointer dereference) via a crafted DNS response with an empty question section.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

A security issue has been found in systemd-resolved, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (daemon crash via NULL-pointer dereference) via a crafted DNS response with an empty question section.

AVG-337 systemd 232-8 233-7 Medium Fixed

04 Jul 2017 ASA-201707-5 AVG-337 systemd Medium denial of service

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/262d95fecd357343887709006188f690cfe040a9
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6020