CVE-2009-4009
Buffer overflow in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.1.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted packets.
02 Description
Buffer overflow in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.1.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted packets.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 17.57% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2010-01-08 17:00Z16 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 06:45Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-11-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 22de50ff642b4a22ac4e2ec3ac963f1ec5c07705efa904e55ecef15bd2d4931f
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2010-0209https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg00217.html
- securitytracker.com1023403http://securitytracker.com/id?1023403
- www.securityfocus.com20100106 Critical PowerDNS Recursor Security Vulnerabilities: please upgrade ASAP to 3.1.7.2http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508743/100/0/threaded
- doc.powerdns.comhttp://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2010-01.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552285
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.compowerdns-unspecified-bo(55438)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55438
- secunia.com38004http://secunia.com/advisories/38004
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2010-0228https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2010-January/msg00228.html
- www.securityfocus.com37650http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37650
- secunia.com38068http://secunia.com/advisories/38068
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-0054http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0054
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- pdns-recursor Fixed in 3.1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- pdns-recursor Fixed in 3.1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- pdns-recursor Fixed in 3.1.7.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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