CVE-2014-2031 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the Deadwood DNS resolver via recursive queries, causing a denial of service.
- 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-2014-2031?
CVE-2014-2031 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Deadwood before 2.3.09, 3.x before 3.2.05, and as used in MaraDNS before 1.4.14 and 2.x before 2.0.09, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) by leveraging permission to perform recursive queries against Deadwood, related to a logic error.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2031?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Deadwood Project Deadwood, Maradns Project Maradns.
How do I fix CVE-2014-2031?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-2031 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-2014-2031 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2031 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fcg2-m6p7-q5hm.