CVE-2016-7072 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2016-7072 Interim 1 8 2022-10-15T16:31:36Z current 2021-05-30T13:45:18Z 2022-10-15T16:31:36Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2016-7072 An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server. If the web server runs out of file descriptors, it triggers an exception and terminates the whole PowerDNS process. While it's more complicated for an unauthorized attacker to make the web server run out of file descriptors since its connection will be closed just after being accepted, it might still be possible. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00102.html E-Mail link for openSUSE-SU-2017:0183-1 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-geoip-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-godbc-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-ldap-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-lmdb-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-lua-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-mysql-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-postgresql-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-remote-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-backend-sqlite3-4.5.1-1.5 pdns-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-geoip-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-godbc-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-ldap-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-lmdb-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-lua-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-mysql-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-postgresql-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-remote-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed pdns-backend-sqlite3-4.5.1-1.5 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server. If the web server runs out of file descriptors, it triggers an exception and terminates the whole PowerDNS process. While it's more complicated for an unauthorized attacker to make the web server run out of file descriptors since its connection will be closed just after being accepted, it might still be possible. CVE-2016-7072 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-geoip-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-godbc-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-ldap-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-lmdb-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-lua-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-mysql-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-postgresql-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-remote-4.5.1-1.5 openSUSE Tumbleweed:pdns-backend-sqlite3-4.5.1-1.5 moderate 5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H