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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24698
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker might...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker might be able to cause a double-free, leading to a crash or possibly arbitrary code execution. by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
pdns
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.4.0-1"}]}]
Debian:13
pdns
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.4.0-1"}]}]
Debian:14
pdns
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.4.0-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org