4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-3409

Published: 26/06/2007 Updated: 03/02/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Net::DNS prior to 0.60, a Perl module, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a malformed compressed DNS packet with self-referencing pointers, which triggers an infinite loop.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #457445 libnet-dns-perl: CVE-2007-6341 possible remote denial of service vulnerability Package: libnet-dns-perl; Maintainer for libnet-dns-perl is Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for libnet-dns-perl is src:libnet-dns-perl (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Nic ...
Peter Johannes Holzer discovered that the Net::DNS Perl module had predictable sequence numbers This could allow remote attackers to carry out DNS spoofing, leading to possible man-in-the-middle attacks (CVE-2007-3377) ...