PT-2014-8646 · Powerdns · Powerdns Recursor

Florian Maury · Published 2014-12-10 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-8601

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 Recursor versions prior to 3.6.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause performance degradations via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by resolving domains hosted by ezdns.it. This is due to the lack of limitation on delegation chaining.

Recommendations For PowerDNS Recursor versions prior to 3.6.2, update to version 3.6.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8601

DLA-104-1

DSA-3096-1

MGASA-2014-0522

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10537-1

Affected Products

Powerdns Recursor

References · 24

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0522 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0522.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8601 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8601 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3096 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8601 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10537-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8601 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8601 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8601 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8601 · Vendor Advisory
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14695 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1868 · Note
• http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/06/20/recursor-3-6-0-released · Note