Memory Leak in PowerDNS Recursor DNSSEC Parsing Code

CVE-2017-15094 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

An issue has been found in the DNSSEC parsing code of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6 leading to a memory leak when parsing specially crafted DNSSEC ECDSA keys. These keys are only parsed when validation is enabled by setting dnssec to a value other than off or process-no-validate (default).

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