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CVE-2017-15120

high · 7.5

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.

7.5
CVSS
51.8%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2018-07-27
Published

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
powerdnsrecursor< 4.0.8
debiandebian_linux8.0
debiandebian_linux9.0

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References

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