ubuntu · CVE-2016-5427

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Priority: low Published: 2016-09-21 14:25:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:06:43 UTC

View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5427 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (pdns), 10 status rows across 10 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 7, DNE 1, ignored 1, released 1.

Description:

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.

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