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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-12244: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 19, 2020
Added
Jun 16, 2020
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly validated in SyncRes::processAnswer, allowing an attacker to bypass DNSSEC validation.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-pdns-recursor
Title
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