CVE - CVE-2017-15120

CVE-ID
CVE-2017-15120	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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BID:106335 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15120 CONFIRM:https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html DEBIAN:DSA-4063 URL:https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063 MLIST:[oss-security] 20171211 PowerDNS Security Advisory 2017-08 URL:http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20171008	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20171008)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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