CVE-2015-5470 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2015-5470

The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and...

Vulnerability Description

The 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

authoritative, recursor
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.7.1, 3.7.2

Timeline

Official Publish: November 2nd, 2015
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.