CVE-2023-22617

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-22617
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-21 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-01-31 17:24:00 UTC
DescriptionA remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM fallback mode. This is fixed in 4.8.1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-674

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Powerdns Recursor 4.8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Changelogs for 4.8.X — PowerDNS Recursor documentation CONFIRM docs.powerdns.com
Security Advisories — PowerDNS Recursor documentation MISC docs.powerdns.com
oss-security - Security Advisory 2023-01 for PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 (CVE-2023-22617) MLIST www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181977 Debian Security Update for pdns-recursor (CVE-2023-22617)
  • 503211 Alpine Linux Security Update for pdns-recursor
  • 506150 Alpine Linux Security Update for pdns-recursor
  • 691038 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for powerdns (28b69630-9b10-11ed-97a6-6805ca2fa271)
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