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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-36754: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 27, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by sending a specific query (QTYPE 65535) that causes an out-of-bounds exception.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-pdns
Title
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