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CVE-2018-16855
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-03T14:29:00.257 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:44:55.167

Summary

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before version 4.1.8 where a remote attacker sending a DNS query can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read while computing the hash of the query for a packet cache lookup, possibly leading to a crash.

Affected products

powerdns — recursor

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References

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