Denial of Service Vulnerability in PowerDNS Authoritative Server

CVE-2016-5427 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.

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