The package powerdns-recursor before version 3.6.2-1 is vulnerable to remote denial of service.
Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201412-9
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Severity: High
Date : 2014-12-09
CVE-ID : CVE-2014-8601
Package : powerdns-recursor
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE-2014
Summary
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The package powerdns-recursor before version 3.6.2-1 is vulnerable to
remote denial of service.
Resolution
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Upgrade to 3.6.2-1.
# pacman -Syu "powerdns-recursor>=3.6.2-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.6.2.
Workaround
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Only clients in allow-from are able to trigger the degraded service, so
this should be limited to your user base.
Description
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PowerDNS, while acting as a caching nameserver, can be negatively
impacted by sending queries for specially configured, hard to resolve
domain names. This is the same issue as the ones found in bind
(ASA-201412-7) and unbound (ASA-201412-8).
Impact
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A remote attacker can trick unbound into consuming a lot of resources by
sending a specially crafted query.
References
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https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8601