CVE-2014-8601

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("performance degradations") via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by resolving domains hosted by ezdns.it.

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("performance degradations") via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by resolving domains hosted by ezdns.it.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-12-10 15:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-09-06 14:30:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

References

http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html

Third Party Advisory

http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2014-02/

Third Party Advisory

DSA-3096

Third Party Advisory

VU#264212

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

71545

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

1031310

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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