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Debian: CVE-2017-15120: pdns-recursor -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-15120: pdns-recursor -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/11/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/13/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-pdns-recursor

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