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Uncontrolled Recursion

CVE-2007-3409

High
7.5/10

Summary

Net::DNS prior to 0.60 allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service (stack consumption) via a malformed compressed DNS packet with self-referencing pointers, which triggers an infinite loop.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published