Upstream information

CVE-2014-8601 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 906583 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2014:1685-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • pdns-recursor >= 4.0.3-1.2
Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10537


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 pdns Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 pdns Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 pdns Unsupported


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Nov 22 11:17:06 2014
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 16 11:17:24 2024