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CVE-2018-10851

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Date: November 29, 2018

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service.

Language: C++

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Related Resources (6)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10851
https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-04.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10851
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-03.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10851
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-10851

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CWE-772

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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