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CVE-2016-5427

CVE-2016-5427

15Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 63%
exploitation probability
63%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
References
https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2016-01/https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/commit/881b5b03a590198d03008e4200dd00cc537712f3http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3664http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/3http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92917http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036761