vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-16855): pdns-recursor vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 3, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before version 4.1.8 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

ubuntu-upgrade-pdns-recursor
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