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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.108608
Category:Denial of Service
Title:PowerDNS Authoritative Server NOTIFY Packets Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary:PowerDNS Authoritative Server is prone to a Denial of Service; via NOTIFY packets.
Description:Summary:
PowerDNS Authoritative Server is prone to a Denial of Service
via NOTIFY packets.

Vulnerability Impact:
This flaw allows a remote, authorized master server to cause a high
CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages.

Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.

Affected Software/OS:
PowerDNS Authoritative before version 4.0.8 and 4.1.x up to and including 4.1.8.

Solution:
Upgrade to version 4.0.8, 4.1.9 or later.

CVSS Score:
4.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-10163
https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/06/21/powerdns-authoritative-server-4-0-8-and-4-1-10-released/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10163
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2019-05.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1904 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00036.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1921 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00054.html
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