CVE-2016-2120

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2120
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2120.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2120
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-11-01T13:29:00.253Z
Modified
2026-04-16T06:17:03.050915385Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3.4.10, 4.0.1 allowing an authorized user to crash the server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control then sending a DNS query for that record. The issue is due to an integer overflow when checking if the content of the record matches the expected size, allowing an attacker to cause a read past the buffer boundary.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/powerdns/pdns

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/powerdns/pdns
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Introduced
Last affected
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.4.10"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

auth-3.*
auth-3.1-rc1
auth-3.1-rc2
auth-3.1-rc3
auth-3.2-rc1
auth-3.2-rc2
auth-3.2-rc3
auth-3.2-rc4
auth-3.4.0
auth-3.4.0-rc1
auth-3.4.0-rc2
auth-3.4.1
auth-3.4.10
auth-3.4.2
auth-3.4.3
auth-3.4.4
auth-3.4.5
auth-3.4.6
auth-3.4.7
auth-3.4.8
auth-3.4.9
auth-4.*
auth-4.0.0
auth-4.0.1
Other
rec-3-0
rec-3-0-1
rec-3.*
rec-3.0
rec-3.0.1
rec-3.1.4
rec-3.3.1
rec-3.5
rec-3.5-rc1
rec-3.5-rc3
rec-3.5-rc4
rec-3.5-rc5
rec-3.6.0
rec-4.*
rec-4.0.0
rec-4.0.1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2120.json"
unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]