CVE-2018-16855 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Powerdns	Recursor

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16855
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-09.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-12-03T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:54.074Z

Reserved: 2018-09-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-16855

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-12-03T14:29:00.257

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:53:27.307

Link: CVE-2018-16855

Redhat

No data.

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