CVE-2007-3409

high

Description

Net::DNS before 0.60, a Perl module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a malformed compressed DNS packet with self-referencing pointers, which triggers an infinite loop.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-483-1

http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Changes.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:146

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-06.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1515

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-06-26

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High