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CVE-2005-2316

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Domain Name Relay Daemon (DNRD) before 2.19.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a DNS packet that uses message compression in the QNAME and two pointers that point to each other (circular buffer).

Affected products

• Dnrd: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 (+18)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/16142
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014557
• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=482568
• http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/e72fd82b-fa01-11d9-bc08-0001020eed82.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16142
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014557
• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=482568
• http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/e72fd82b-fa01-11d9-bc08-0001020eed82.html

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