cve-2016-7072
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-10 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:50
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server. If the web server runs out of file descriptors, it triggers an exception and terminates the whole PowerDNS process. While it's more complicated for an unauthorized attacker to make the web server run out of file descriptors since its connection will be closed just after being accepted, it might still be possible.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7072Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2016-03/Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3764Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7072Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2016-03/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3764Third Party Advisory
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