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.
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