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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.140594
Category:Denial of Service
Title:PowerDNS Recursor DoS Vulnerability
Summary:PowerDNS Recursor is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
PowerDNS Recursor is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS
Recursor, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a
different class than IN.

Affected Software/OS:
PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.7.

Solution:
Upgrade to version 4.0.8 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15120
BugTraq ID: 106335
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335
Debian Security Information: DSA-4063 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382
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