CVE-2015-5470

NameCVE-2015-5470
DescriptionThe label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that refers to itself. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-3306-1, DSA-3307-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
pdns (PTS)buster4.1.6-3+deb10u1fixed
bullseye4.4.1-1fixed
bookworm4.7.3-2fixed
sid, trixie4.8.3-4fixed
pdns-recursor (PTS)buster, buster (security)4.1.11-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye4.4.2-3fixed
bookworm4.8.4-1fixed
bookworm (security)4.8.7-1fixed
sid, trixie4.9.3-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
pdnssourcesqueeze(not affected)
pdnssourcewheezy(not affected)
pdnssourcejessie3.4.1-4+deb8u2DSA-3306-1
pdnssource(unstable)3.4.5-1
pdns-recursorsourcesqueeze(not affected)
pdns-recursorsourcewheezy(not affected)
pdns-recursorsourcejessie3.6.2-2+deb8u2DSA-3307-1
pdns-recursorsource(unstable)3.7.3-1

Notes

[wheezy] - pdns <not-affected> (3.2 and up affected)
[squeeze] - pdns <not-affected> (3.2 and up affected)
[wheezy] - pdns-recursor <not-affected> (3.5 and up affected)
[squeeze] - pdns-recursor <not-affected> (3.5 and up affected)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/07/6
https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/
Patch: http://downloads.powerdns.com/patches/2015-01/rec-3.7.2.patch

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