CVE-2014-8601 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8601?

CVE-2014-8601 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("performance degradations") via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by resolving domains hosted by ezdns.it.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8601?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Powerdns Recursor.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8601?

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-2014-8601 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8601 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8601, DLA-104-1, DSA-3096-1, GHSA-cmfg-cqcc-qpqf, MGASA-2014-0522, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8601.