CVE-2005-2302

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-07-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

PowerDNS before 2.9.18, when allowing recursion to a restricted range of IP addresses, does not properly handle questions from clients that are denied recursion, which could cause a "blank out" of answers to those clients that are allowed to use recursion.

Affected products

PowerDNS: 2.9.0, 2.9.1, 2.9.2, 2.9.3a, 2.9.4, 2.9.5 (+11)

References

http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-2-9-18
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112155941310297&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014504
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-2-9-18
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112155941310297&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014504
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html

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