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High
CVE-2018-20994
An issue was discovered in the trust-dns-proto crate before 0.5.0-alpha.3...
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in the trust-dns-proto crate before 0.5.0-alpha.3 for Rust. There is infinite recursion because DNS message compression is mishandled.
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.
Affected Vendor
trust-dns-proto project
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trust-dns-proto
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.5.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 26th, 2019
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.