CVE-2016-2120 (GCVE-0-2016-2120)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-01 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:17
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1129 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3764 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
[UNKNOWN] pdns Affected: up to and including 3.4.10
Affected: up to and including 4.0.1
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Date Public
2017-01-15 00:00
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