github - ghsa-59qw-42jc-ww5f

ghsa-59qw-42jc-ww5f

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-01-21 21:30

Modified

2025-04-03 15:30

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM fallback mode. This is fixed in 4.8.1.

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  "modified": "2025-04-03T15:30:48Z",
  "published": "2023-01-21T21:30:24Z",
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CVE-2023-22617 (GCVE-0-2023-22617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-01-21 00:00

Modified

2025-04-03 14:38

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM fallback mode. This is fixed in 4.8.1.

References

URL

Tags

	https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/20/1	mailing-list
	https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.1

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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