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CVE-2018-10851

Published: Nov 29, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service.

VendorProductVersions

The PowerDNS Project

pdns

affected
3.3.0 to 4.1.4, excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6

The PowerDNS Project

pdns-recursor

affected
3.2 to 4.1.4, excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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