CVE-2017-15120

2018-07-2715:00:00

CWE-476

redhat

www.cve.org

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

75.3%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "pdns-recursor",
    "vendor": "PowerDNS",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "4.0.8"
      }
    ]
  }
]