Candidate: CVE-2016-5427
PublicDate: 2016-09-21 14:25:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5427
 https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2016-01/
Description:
 PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly
 handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a
 denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_pdns:
 upstream: https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/commit/881b5b03a590198d03008e4200dd00cc537712f3
upstream_pdns: released (4.0.0~alpha1-1)
precise_pdns: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_pdns: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_pdns: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_pdns: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_pdns: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_pdns: DNE
xenial_pdns: not-affected (4.0.0~alpha2-3build1)
yakkety_pdns: not-affected
zesty_pdns: not-affected
artful_pdns: not-affected
bionic_pdns: not-affected
cosmic_pdns: not-affected
disco_pdns: not-affected
devel_pdns: not-affected