UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15094

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15094

    Published: 23 Jan 2018Last Modified: 8 Sept 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-15094

    Summary:

    Details: An issue has been found in the DNSSEC parsing code of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6 leading to a memory leak when parsing specially crafted DNSSEC ECDSA keys. These keys are only parsed when validation is enabled by setting dnssec to a value other than off or process-no-validate (default).

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15094, https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-07.html, https://downloads.powerdns.com/patches/2017-07/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15094

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pdns-recursor

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~alpha2-2ubuntu0.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.7.3-1

    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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