CVE-2015-5470
EPSS 0.01%pdns-recursor - security update
Published: 11/2/2015Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that refers to itself. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/pdnsfrom 0, < 3.4.5-1
- Debian/pdnsfrom 0, < 3.4.1-4+deb8u2
- Debian/pdns-recursorfrom 0, < 3.7.3-1
- Debian/pdns-recursorfrom 0, < 3.6.2-2+deb8u2