Vigil@nce - PowerDNS Recursor: denial of service via Cached Meta-Type DNS Query
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 11/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can generate a fatal error via Cached Meta-Type DNS
Query of PowerDNS Recursor, in order to trigger a denial of
service.
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