CVE-2018-16855 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2018-16855 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 19.83% · 95.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

19.83%

95.4th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS	pdns-recursor	0, 4.0.6-1, 4.0.6-1build1

Timeline

Dec 3, 2018 CVE Published
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16855 third-party-advisory
https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-09.html third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16855 third-party-advisory

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