CVE-2014-2032 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.9 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash the Deadwood DNS resolver by sending crafted recursive queries due to missing input validation.

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-2014-2032?

CVE-2014-2032 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 missing input validation.

Weakness: CWE-20, CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2032?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Deadwood Project Deadwood, Maradns Project Maradns.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2032?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-2032 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-2014-2032 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2032 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-q797-vg3x-r5qx.

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