Denial of Service Vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor and Authoritative Server

Denial of Service Vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor and Authoritative Server

CVE-2015-1868 · HIGH Severity

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

The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to itself.

Learn more about our Cis Benchmark Audit For Server Software.