Out-of-Bounds Memory Read Vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor

CVE-2018-16855 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before version 4.1.8 where a remote attacker sending a DNS query can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read while computing the hash of the query for a packet cache lookup, possibly leading to a crash.

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