CVE-2022-37428 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2022-37428?

CVE-2022-37428 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 23 Aug 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specific properties.

Weakness: CWE-459

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-37428?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Powerdns Recursor.

How do I fix CVE-2022-37428?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2022-37428 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-37428 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37428, GHSA-w3r7-9rrf-88pm, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37428, openSUSE-SU-2022:10171-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:12281-1.