Upstream information

CVE-2021-36754 at MITRE

Description

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by sending a specific query (QTYPE 65535) that causes an out-of-bounds exception.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important 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
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.5 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1188495 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • pdns >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-geoip >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-godbc >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-ldap >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-lmdb >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-lua >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-mysql >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-postgresql >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-remote >= 4.5.1-1.5
  • pdns-backend-sqlite3 >= 4.5.1-1.5
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11156

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Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated.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 Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 pdns Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 pdns Not affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 20 08:38:33 2021
CVE page last modified: Tue Sep 3 19:20:55 2024