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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16855

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 pdns-recursor

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.1.8-1"}]}]

Debian:13 pdns-recursor

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.1.8-1"}]}]

Debian:14 pdns-recursor

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.1.8-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org