CVE-2014-8601

Publication date 10 December 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("performance degradations") via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by resolving domains hosted by ezdns.it.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
pdns-recursor 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily
Not affected
15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.5.3-1ubuntu0.1
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

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