{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2016-7068", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "pdns", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "3.4.11" }, { "version_value": "4.0.2" }, { "version_value": "3.7.4" }, { "version_value": "4.0.4" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "Open-Xchange" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 3.7.4 and 4.0.4, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU usage load on the PowerDNS server by sending crafted DNS queries, which might result in a partial denial of service if the system becomes overloaded. This issue is based on the fact that the PowerDNS server parses all records present in a query regardless of whether they are needed or even legitimate. A specially crafted query containing a large number of records can be used to take advantage of that behaviour." } ] }, "impact": { "cvss": [ [ { "vectorString": "5.3/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L", "version": "3.0" } ] ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-20" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7068", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7068" }, { "name": "DSA-3764", "refsource": "DEBIAN", "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3764" }, { "name": "DSA-3763", "refsource": "DEBIAN", "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3763" }, { "name": "https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2016-02/", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2016-02/" } ] } }