PT-2015-5479 · Powerdns · Powerdns Recursor+1

Toshifumi Sakaguchi · Published 2015-05-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-1868

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PowerDNS Recursor versions 3.5.x through 3.6.2 and versions 3.7.x prior to 3.7.2 PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions 3.2.x through 3.3.1 and versions 3.4.x prior to 3.4.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption or a crash, via a request with a name that refers to itself. This is related to the label decompression functionality.

Recommendations For PowerDNS Recursor versions 3.5.x through 3.6.2, update to version 3.6.3 or later. For PowerDNS Recursor versions 3.7.x prior to 3.7.2, update to version 3.7.2 or later. For PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions 3.2.x through 3.3.1, update to version 3.3.2 or later. For PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions 3.4.x prior to 3.4.4, update to version 3.4.4 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-1868

DSA-3306-1

DSA-3307-1

MGASA-2015-0189

MGASA-2015-0301

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10136-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10537-1

Affected Products

Powerdns Authoritative Server

Powerdns Recursor

References · 50

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0189 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0189.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10136-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-1868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0301 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1868 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3306 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3307-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3306-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156680.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1868 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1868 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5470 · Security Note