Amplification Attacks

PowerDNS Recursor is vulnerable toamplification attacks. It does not sufficiently defend against amplification attacks. An issue in the DNS protocol has been found that allow malicious parties to use recursive DNS services to attack third party authoritative name servers. The attack uses a crafte...

openSUSE Security Update : pdns-recursor (openSUSE-2020-698)

This update for pdns-recursor fixes the following issues : - update to 4.1.16 - fixes an issue where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly validated CVE-2020-12244, boo1171553 - fixes an issue where invalid hostname on the server can result in...

MGASA-2020-0223 Updated pdns-recursor packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated pdns-recursor packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue in the DNS protocol has been found that allow malicious parties to use recursive DNS services to attack third party authoritative name servers. The attack uses a crafted reply by an authoritative name server to amplify the...

powerdns-recursor -- multiple vulnerabilities

PowerDNS Team reports: CVE-2020-10995: An issue in the DNS protocol has been found that allow malicious parties to use recursive DNS services to attack third party authoritative name servers. The attack uses a crafted reply by an authoritative name server to amplify the resulting traffic between...