Vulnerability in Powerdns

CVE-2005-0038

The DNS implementation of PowerDNS 2.9.16 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed DNS packet with a label length byte with an incorrect offset, which could trigger an infinite loop.

EPSS: 0.061 (92.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Powerdns — versions 2.0_rc1, 2.8, 2.9.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

References