National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3337
Original release date:08/08/2008
Last revised:01/09/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 2.9.21.1 drops malformed queries, which might make it easier for remote attackers to poison DNS caches of other products running on other servers, a different issue than CVE-2008-1447 and CVE-2008-3217.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [pdns-users] 20080806 Security update: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.21.1 released
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7083
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7048
External Source: XF
Name: powerdns-query-weak-security(44253)
External Source: BID
Name: 30587
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2320
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200812-19
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33264
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31687
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31448
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31407
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31401
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:017
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1628
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2008-02.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html