CVE-2008-0061

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2008-0061

    CVE-2008-0061

    Published: 3 Jan 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: MaraDNS 1.0 before 1.0.41, 1.2 before 1.2.12.08, and 1.3 before 1.3.07.04 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS packet that prevents an authoritative name (CNAME) record from resolving, aka "improper rotation of resource records."

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/28329, http://secunia.com/advisories/28334, http://secunia.com/advisories/28650, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-16.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1445, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0026, http://maradns.blogspot.com/2007/08/maradns-update-all-versions.html, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204351, http://www.maradns.org/changelog.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27124

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High