CVE-2014-8601 Information

Description

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (\performance degradations) via a large or infinite number of referrals as demonstrated by resolving domains hosted by ezdns.it.

Reference

http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2014-02/ http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3096 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71545 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031310