| Name | CVE-2018-10851 |
| Description | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 913162, 913163 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pdns (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.4.1-4+deb8u10 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 4.0.3-1+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster | 4.1.6-3+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 4.4.1-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.7.3-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.9.2-1 | fixed |
| pdns-recursor (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.6.2-2+deb8u4 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.1.11-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 4.4.2-3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 4.8.8-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.0.9-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - pdns <ignored> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - pdns-recursor <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-03.html
https://downloads.powerdns.com/patches/2018-03/
https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-04.html
https://downloads.powerdns.com/patches/2018-04/