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Strike ID:
D18-5mvr1
CVSS:
5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
False Positive:
t
Variants:
1
Year:
2018

Description

This strike exploits a denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS. In a normal DNS message, the minimum number of bytes in the Additional Section is 16. If this section contains less than 11 bytes, an error in validation will lead to a buffer overread, which then causes the pdns_recursor service to terminate abnormally, leading to a denial of service condition

CVE

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-16855

References

https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-09...

BID

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101085