high7.5
CVE-2017-15120
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 special…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Powerdns | Recursor | before 4.0.8 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 8.0, 9.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15120
- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15120
- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063