View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2015-8702 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (inspircd), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial): released 3, not-affected 2, ignored 1.
The DNS::GetResult function in dns.cpp in InspIRCd before 2.0.19 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (netsplit) via an invalid character in a PTR response, as demonstrated by a "\032" (whitespace) character in a hostname.