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FreeBSD: VID-1C21F6A3-9415-11E9-95EC-6805CA2FA271 (CVE-2019-10163): powerdns -- multiple vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jun 21, 2019 | Jul 1, 2019 | Aug 16, 2019 |
Description
Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.
From VID-1C21F6A3-9415-11E9-95EC-6805CA2FA271:
PowerDNS Team reports:
CVE-2019-10162: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server allowing an authorized user to
cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The
issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while
looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.
CVE-2019-10163: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server allowing a remote, authorized
master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending
a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.
Solution
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