vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-16855)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 3, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor versions from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.1.7, where a remote attacker sending a DNS query can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read while computing the hash of the query for a packet cache lookup, possibly leading to a crash.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
NEW

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