CVE-2020-24696

Summary

CVECVE-2020-24696
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-02 09:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-10-08 15:16:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a race condition leading to a crash, or possibly arbitrary code execution, by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Powerdns Authoritative All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06: Various issues in our GSS-TSIG support — PowerDNS Authoritative Server documentation MISC doc.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

  • 690417 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for powerdns (61d89849-43cb-11eb-aba5-00a09858faf5)
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