CVE-2018-1046

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

pdns before version 4.1.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in dnsreplay. In the dnsreplay tool provided with PowerDNS Authoritative, replaying a specially crafted PCAP file can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, leading to a crash and potentially arbitrary code execution. This buffer overflow only occurs when the -ecs-stamp option of dnsreplay is used.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 4.1.2-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.1.2-1
sid Fixed 4.1.2-1
forky Fixed 4.1.2-1
bullseye Fixed 4.1.2-1
bookworm Fixed 4.1.2-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.