Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5427

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-09-21 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:01:00
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.