Bug 1172116 (CVE-2014-8601) - CVE-2014-8601 pdns: denial of service via specially crafted domain names
Summary: CVE-2014-8601 pdns: denial of service via specially crafted domain names
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2014-8601
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1172117 1172118
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-12-09 12:33 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-12-15 13:20:27 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2014-12-09 12:33:19 UTC 
A flaw was found in the way PowerDNS Recursor resolved certain specially crafted domain names. A remote attacked could use a specially crafted domain name that, when processed by PowerDNS Recursor, would affect the performance of PowerDNS, potentially resulting in a denial of service.

More information can be found in the upstream advisory:

http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2014-02/

Patches are available at:

https://downloads.powerdns.com/patches/2014-02/

Other references:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/975
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2014-12-09 12:33:45 UTC 
Created pdns-recursor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1172117]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1172118]
Comment 2 Morten Stevens 2014-12-09 12:40:54 UTC 
Fedora is not affected. We have already the latest stable pdns-recursor 3.6.2 updates for Fedora and Fedora-EPEL.

See: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/pdns-recursor
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