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CVE-2017-15120
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-07-27T15:29:00.343 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:07:17.097

Summary

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.

Affected products

powerdns — recursor

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References

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