CVE-2007-3116 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in MaraDNS via memory consumption, requiring an upgrade to mitigate.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2007-3116?

CVE-2007-3116 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Jun 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in server/MaraDNS.c in MaraDNS 1.2.12.06 and 1.3.05 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, a different set of affected versions than CVE-2007-3114 and CVE-2007-3115.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3116?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Maradns Maradns.

How do I fix CVE-2007-3116?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2007-3116 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-3116 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-3116, GHSA-32vj-x8fv-x955.

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