CVE-2015-1868 — Authoritative vulnerability
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 18
Latest updateMay 17
Description
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to itself.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:CExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.9
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Fedora 20, 21, 22
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2015-1868: pdns - The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3...↗2015
💬Community
7Bugzilla▶
CVE-2015-5470 pdns-recursor: pdns: Label decompression bug in PowerDNS can cause crashes on specific platforms (incomplete CVE-2015-1868 fix) [fedora-all]↗2015-07-13
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2015-5470 pdns: Label decompression bug in PowerDNS can cause crashes on specific platforms (incomplete CVE-2015-1868 fix) [fedora-all]↗2015-07-13
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2015-5470 pdns: Label decompression bug in PowerDNS can cause crashes on specific platforms (incomplete CVE-2015-1868 fix) [epel-all]↗2015-07-13
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2015-5470 pdns: Label decompression bug in PowerDNS can cause crashes on specific platforms (incomplete CVE-2015-1868 fix)↗2015-07-13
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2015-5470 pdns-recursor: pdns: Label decompression bug in PowerDNS can cause crashes on specific platforms (incomplete CVE-2015-1868 fix) [epel-all]↗2015-07-13