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Title : PowerDNS Malformed Queries Dropping Security Weakness
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2320
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3337
CWE ID : CWE-20
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-11

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A vulnerability has been identified in PowerDNS, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error when dropping malformed DNS queries, which could facilitate spoofing attacks against certain DNS servers.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Brian J. Dowling (Simplicity Communications).

ChangeLog

2008-08-11 : Initial release

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