UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7072

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7072
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7072.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7072
Related
Published
2018-09-10T17:29:00Z
Modified
2024-10-15T14:05:53Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server. If the web server runs out of file descriptors, it triggers an exception and terminates the whole PowerDNS process. While it's more complicated for an unauthorized attacker to make the web server run out of file descriptors since its connection will be closed just after being accepted, it might still be possible.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / pdns

Package

Name
pdns
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pdns?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.4.5-1build2
3.4.6-2
3.4.6-3
3.4.7-1
3.4.7-2

4.*

4.0.0~alpha1-1
4.0.0~alpha2-2
4.0.0~alpha2-3
4.0.0~alpha2-3build1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}