Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5470

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-11-02 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 06:50:02
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.