CVE-2017-15120NULL Pointer Dereference in Recursor

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 43.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 27
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDpowerdns/recursor< 4.0.8
CVEListV5powerdns/pdns-recursor4.0.8

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-rxpc-3cmh-w743: An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 42022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2017-15120: An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 42018-07-27
OSV
CVE-2017-15120: An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 42018-07-27

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-15120: pdns-recursor - An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recu...2017

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15120 pdns-recursor: Crafted CNAME answer can cause a denial of service [fedora-all]2017-12-12
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15120 pdns-recursor: Crafted CNAME answer can cause a denial of service2017-12-12
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15090 CVE-2017-15092 CVE-2017-15093 CVE-2017-15094 CVE-2017-15120 pdns-recursor: various flaws [epel-all]2017-12-11
CVE-2017-15120 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Recursor | cvebase