CVE-2005-0038

published 2005-12-31

CVE-2005-0038: The DNS implementation of PowerDNS 2.9.16 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed DNS packet with a label length byte…

Priority P4 22 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

The DNS implementation of PowerDNS 2.9.16 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed DNS packet with a label length byte with an incorrect offset, which could trigger an infinite loop.

Affected

23 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	pdns	< pdns 2.9.17-1 (bookworm)	pdns 2.9.17-1 (bookworm)
open-xchange	pdns	>= 0 < 2.9.17-1	2.9.17-1
open-xchange	pdns	>= 0 < 2.9.17-1	2.9.17-1
open-xchange	pdns	>= 0 < 2.9.17-1	2.9.17-1
open-xchange	pdns	>= 0 < 2.9.17-1	2.9.17-1
powerdns	powerdns	<= 2.9.16	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—
powerdns	powerdns	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 MEDIUM

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