CVE-2019-10162

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.01%

pdns - security update

Published: 7/30/2019Modified: 3/9/2026

Also known as:DSA-4470-1DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10162

Description

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/pdnsfrom 0, < 4.1.6-3
Debian/pdnsfrom 0, < 3.4.1-4+deb8u10
Debian/pdnsfrom 0, < 4.0.3-1+deb9u5

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-10162