7.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-1868

Published: 18/05/2015 Updated: 28/12/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 694
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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

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powerdns authoritative 3.2

powerdns authoritative 3.3

powerdns authoritative 3.3.1

powerdns authoritative 3.3.2

powerdns authoritative 3.4.0

powerdns authoritative 3.4.1

powerdns authoritative 3.4.3

fedoraproject fedora 20

fedoraproject fedora 21

fedoraproject fedora 22

powerdns recursor 3.5

powerdns recursor 3.6.0

powerdns recursor 3.6.1

powerdns recursor 3.6.2

powerdns recursor 3.5.3

powerdns recursor 3.6.3

powerdns recursor 3.7.1

powerdns recursor 3.5.2

powerdns recursor 3.5.1

Vendor Advisories

Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that the patch applied to pdns, an authoritative DNS server, fixing CVE-2015-1868, was insufficient in some cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service-affecting CPU spikes and in some cases a crash) For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 341-4+deb8u2 ...
Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that the patch applied to pdns-recursor, a recursive DNS server, fixing CVE-2015-1868, was insufficient in some cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service-affecting CPU spikes and in some cases a crash) For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 362-2+de ...