Security Advisory

CVE-2017-15120

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-07-27 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 19:50:16
Assigner redhat
CVSS score 7.5
State PUBLISHED

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.