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CVE-2018-16855

Published: Dec 3, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.5

HIGH

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before version 4.1.8 where a remote attacker sending a DNS query can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read while computing the hash of the query for a packet cache lookup, possibly leading to a crash.

VendorProductVersions

[UNKNOWN]

pdns-recursor

affected
4.1.8

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-125

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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