PT-2014-9133 · Powerdns · Powerdns Recursor

Published 2014-06-20 · Updated 2014-06-20

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PowerDNS recursor (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a denial of service caused by a bug that exhausts the maximum number of file descriptors available to a process.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2014-0272

Affected Products

Powerdns Recursor

References · 5

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0272.html · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128851.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0272 · Vendor Advisory
• http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/02/06/related-to-recent-dos-attacks-recursor-configuration-file-guidance · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13521 · Note