CVE-2016-2120 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Authoritative
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
CNA7.5
EPSS
0.1%
top 67.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 1
Latest updateMay 13
Description
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3.4.10, 4.0.1 allowing an authorized user to crash the server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control then sending a DNS query for that record. The issue is due to an integer overflow when checking if the content of the record matches the expected size, allowing an attacker to cause a read past the buffer boundary.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-mq8j-4764-x4h8: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3↗2022-05-13
OSV▶
CVE-2016-2120: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3↗2018-11-01
CVEList▶
CVE-2016-2120: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3↗2018-11-01
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2016-2120: pdns - An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and incl...↗2016
💬Community
5Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-2120 pdns-recursor: pdns: Multiple security vulnerabilities fixed in latest versions [fedora-all]↗2017-01-16
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-2120 pdns: Multiple security vulnerabilities fixed in latest versions [epel-all]↗2017-01-16
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-2120 pdns: Multiple security vulnerabilities fixed in latest versions [fedora-all]↗2017-01-16
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-2120 pdns-recursor: pdns: Multiple security vulnerabilities fixed in latest versions [epel-all]↗2017-01-16