powerdns up to 2.9.17 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in powerdns. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Executing a manipulation can lead to denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2005-2302. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in powerdns (Domain Name Software). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

powerdns before 2.9.18 when allowing recursion to a restricted range of ip addresses does not properly handle questions from clients that are denied recursion which could cause a "blank out" of answers to those clients that are allowed to use recursion.

The weakness was presented 07/19/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2005-2302. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 19341 (FreeBSD : PowerDNS -- LDAP backend fails to escape all queries (43a7b0a7-f9bc-11d9-b473-00061bc2ad93)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (21495), Tenable (19341), SecurityFocus (BID 14291†), SecurityTracker (ID 1014504†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-8863†). See VDB-25827 for similar entry. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 19341
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : PowerDNS -- LDAP backend fails to escape all queries (43a7b0a7-f9bc-11d9-b473-00061bc2ad93)
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OpenVAS ID: 54477
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 771-1 (pdns)
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-2302 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-2302
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-25828
X-Force: 21495
SecurityFocus: 14291
SecurityTracker: 1014504
Vulnerability Center: 8863 - PowerDNS with Recursion Enabled DoS via Malformed Queries, Low

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 02/01/2025 22:00
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (59), 11/24/2016 10:10 (2), 07/05/2021 14:04 (4), 07/05/2021 14:09 (1), 02/01/2025 22:00 (15)
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