CVE-2015-8702

Publication date

2016-04-12 14:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The DNS::GetResult function in dns.cpp in InspIRCd before 2.0.19 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (netsplit) via an invalid character in a PTR response, as demonstrated by a "032" (whitespace) character in a hostname.