CVE-2015-5470

2015-11-0200:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.8 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.045 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.5%

JSON

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.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868 only affected pdns 3.2+ and pdns-recursor 3.5+

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchpdns-recursor< 3.5.3-1ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.04noarchpdns-recursor< 3.6.2-2+deb8u2build0.15.04.1UNKNOWN