CVE-2008-3337

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 2.9.21.1 drops malformed queries, which might make it easier for remote attackers to poison DNS caches of other products running on other servers, a different issue than CVE-2008-1447 and CVE-2008-3217.

Affected products

PowerDNS Authoritative Server: through 2.9.21
PowerDNS: all versions

References

http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html
http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2008-02.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2008-August/005646.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31401
http://secunia.com/advisories/31407
http://secunia.com/advisories/31448
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://secunia.com/advisories/33264
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-19.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30587
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2320

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