CVE-2011-5055

MaraDNS 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without properly restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired RD bit set. NOTE:...

CVE-2011-5055

The provided documents confirm a concrete vulnerability in MaraDNS: hash collision handling bugs allow a remote attacker to exhaust CPU by sending numerous crafted DNS queries with the RD bit set, affecting MaraDNS 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.08 (and older releases affected by related CVE-2012-0024). Root ...