Security Advisory

CVE-2017-15120

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.
Published Date July 27, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory