vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-2120: pdns -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 13, 2017
Added
Jan 14, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3.4.10, 4.0.1 allowing an authorized user to crash the server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control then sending a DNS query for that record. The issue is due to an integer overflow when checking if the content of the record matches the expected size, allowing an attacker to cause a read past the buffer boundary.

Solution

debian-upgrade-pdns
Title
NEW

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