Vulnerability in Powerdns Recursor

CVE-2014-8601

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("performance degradations") via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by resolving domains ho…

EPSS: 0.735 (99.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
  • DSA-3096 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
  • 1031310 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
  • cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
  • 71545 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
  • VU#264212 (x_refsource_CERT-VN, US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)