Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2016-5427 First vendor Publication 2016-09-21
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-08-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5427

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 12

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-10-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-efffcc7aec.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-26 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1103.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-627.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3664.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92917
CONFIRM https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2016-01/
https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/commit/881b5b03a590198d03008e4200dd00cc537712f3
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3664
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/09/3
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036761

Alert History

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Date Informations
2021-05-04 12:51:34
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2021-04-22 02:04:16
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2020-05-23 02:00:43
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2020-05-23 00:52:15
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2018-11-17 12:06:54
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2018-09-19 12:08:52
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2017-08-13 09:23:40
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2017-01-07 09:25:56
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2016-11-29 00:26:28
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2016-10-07 13:23:41
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2016-09-27 13:24:48
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2016-09-22 00:22:23
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2016-09-21 21:29:44
  • First insertion