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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-22617: Uncontrolled Recursion

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-22617: Uncontrolled Recursion

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
01/21/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM fallback mode. This is fixed in 4.8.1.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-pdns-recursor

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