CVE-2018-16855

Name
CVE-2018-16855
Description
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Vendor Advisory https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-09.html
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16855

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* recursor >= None < 4.1.8

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status