CVE-2017-15120

Published Jul 27, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 51.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4063-1 pdns-recursor security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-6581 An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 7:50 PM
Reserved
Oct 8, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 27, 2018, 3:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:07 AM