CVE-2005-2316 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published 28 Apr 2006 Updated 17 Sep 2024

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in DNRD via crafted DNS packets with circular compression pointers.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2005-2316?

CVE-2005-2316 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 28 Apr 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Domain Name Relay Daemon (DNRD) before 2.19.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a DNS packet that uses message compression in the QNAME and two pointers that point to each other (circular buffer).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2316?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dnrd Dnrd.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2316?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-2316 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2005-2316 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2316 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-9q57-c7wq-mf86.