CVE-2011-5055

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    CVE-2011-5055

    Published: 8 Jan 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: MaraDNS 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without properly restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired (RD) bit set. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0024.

    References: http://samiam.org/blog/20111230.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771428, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/13, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/6

    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
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