PT-2005-1162 · Powerdns · Powerdns+1

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-0038

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PowerDNS versions 2.9.16 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed DNS packet with a label length byte that has an incorrect offset, potentially triggering an infinite loop.

Recommendations For PowerDNS versions 2.9.16 and earlier, update to a version later than 2.9.16 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0038

Affected Products

Powerdns

Powerdns Authoritative Server

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0038 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-0038 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13729 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/25291 · Note
• http://niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050524-00433.html · Note
• http://niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20050524-00432.pdf?lang=en · Note