Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2016-2120 |
CWE-ID | CWE-190 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
PowerDNS Server applications / DNS servers |
Vendor | PowerDNS.COM B.V. |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU32138
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1:
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2120
CWE-ID:
Exploit availability:
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3.4.10, 4.0.1 allowing an authorized user to crash the server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control then sending a DNS query for that record. The issue is due to an integer overflow when checking if the content of the record matches the expected size, allowing an attacker to cause a read past the buffer boundary.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsPowerDNS: 3.4.0 - 3.4.10
Fixed software versionsCPE2.3 External links
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-2120
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3764
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