CVE-2015-5470 (GCVE-0-2015-5470)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-11-02 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:50
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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