CVE-2015-5470 (GCVE-0-2015-5470)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-02 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:50
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Summary
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that refers to itself. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-07-07 00:00
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