CVE-2018-14644

Summary

CVECVE-2018-14644
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-09 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:35:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers for that parent zone answer with FORMERR to a query for at least one of the meta-types. As a result, subsequent queries from clients requesting DNSSEC validation will be answered with a ServFail.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Powerdns Recursor All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1648378 – (CVE-2018-14644) CVE-2018-14644 pdns: crafted query for meta-types can lead to a DoS CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
PowerDNS Security Advisory 2018-07: Crafted query for meta-types can cause a denial of service — PowerDNS Recursor documentation CONFIRM docs.powerdns.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501112 Alpine Linux Security Update for pdns-recursor
  • 690653 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for powerdns-recursor (e9aa0e4c-ea8b-11e8-a5b7-00e04c1ea73d)
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