PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.8 Vulnerability: Denial of Service via Parsing of Authoritative Answers

CVE-2017-15120 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.

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