FKIE_CVE-2015-8702

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-04-12 14:59 - Updated: 2026-05-06 22:30
Severity
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The DNS::GetResult function in dns.cpp in InspIRCd before 2.0.19 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (netsplit) via an invalid character in a PTR response, as demonstrated by a "\032" (whitespace) character in a hostname.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3527Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.inspircd.org/2015/04/16/v2019-released.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/6058483d9fbc1b904d5ae7cfea47bfcde5c5b559Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/issues/1033Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-13
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3527Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.inspircd.org/2015/04/16/v2019-released.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/6058483d9fbc1b904d5ae7cfea47bfcde5c5b559Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/issues/1033Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-13
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
debian debian_linux 7.0
debian debian_linux 8.0
inspircd inspircd *
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