CVE-2017-15120
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...
- Published
- Jul 27, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Evidence observed
- Aug 4, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 98.9%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE
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