DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15120

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15120

    Published: 27 Jul 2018Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-15120

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15120

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pdns-recursor

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/pdns-recursor?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.1.0-1

    Affected versions

    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