CVE-2008-0061

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MaraDNS 1.0 before 1.0.41, 1.2 before 1.2.12.08, and 1.3 before 1.3.07.04 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS packet that prevents an authoritative name (CNAME) record from resolving, aka "improper rotation of resource records."

Affected products

MaraDNS: 1.0.00, 1.0.01, 1.0.02, 1.0.03, 1.0.04, 1.0.05 (+51)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204351
http://maradns.blogspot.com/2007/08/maradns-update-all-versions.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28329
http://secunia.com/advisories/28334
http://secunia.com/advisories/28650
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1445
http://www.maradns.org/changelog.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27124
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0026
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204351
http://maradns.blogspot.com/2007/08/maradns-update-all-versions.html

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