Security Advisory
CVE-2016-5427
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
September 21, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory