CVE-2018-1046CWE-121

pdns before version 4.1.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in dnsreplay

High · published July 16, 2018

CVSS v3.0
7.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
72.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

pdns before version 4.1.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in dnsreplay. In the dnsreplay tool provided with PowerDNS Authoritative, replaying a specially crafted PCAP file can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, leading to a crash and potentially arbitrary code execution. This buffer overflow only occurs when the -ecs-stamp option of dnsreplay is used.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01411 · 72.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2018-07-16T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUL 20:00Z
    pdns before version 4.1.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in dnsreplay
    cvelistv5