CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
79.9%
The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture.
Daniel Drown reported an error when receiving a HINFO CH query (CVE-2008-5277). Brian J. Dowling of Simplicity Communications discovered a previously unknown security implication of the PowerDNS behavior to not respond to certain queries it considers malformed (CVE-2008-3337).
A remote attacker could send specially crafted queries to cause a Denial of Service. The second vulnerability in itself does not pose a security risk to PowerDNS Nameserver. However, not answering a query for an invalid DNS record within a valid domain allows for a larger spoofing window on third-party nameservers for domains being hosted by PowerDNS Nameserver itself.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All PowerDNS users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/pdns-2.9.21.2"
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gentoo | any | all | net-dns/pdns | < 2.9.21.2 | UNKNOWN |