vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-15120): pdns-recursor vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 27, 2018
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

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

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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