CVE-2016-2120Integer 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
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

NVDpowerdns/authoritative4.0.04.0.1+1
Debianopen-xchange/pdns< 4.0.2-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-mq8j-4764-x4h8: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 32022-05-13
OSV
CVE-2016-2120: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 32018-11-01
CVEList
CVE-2016-2120: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 32018-11-01

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2016-2120: pdns - An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and incl...2016

💬Community

5
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2120 pdns-recursor: pdns: Multiple security vulnerabilities fixed in latest versions [fedora-all]2017-01-16
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2120 pdns: crafted zone record can cause a denial of service2017-01-16
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
CVE-2016-2120 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound | cvebase