CVE-2016-5427

Published September 21st, 2016

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.

PowerDNS/pdns

PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

GitHub

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