CVE-2011-5055

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-01-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

MaraDNS 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without properly restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired (RD) bit set. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0024.

Affected products

MaraDNS: 1.3.07.012, 1.4.08

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/13
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/6
http://samiam.org/blog/20111230.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771428
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/13
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/6
http://samiam.org/blog/20111230.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771428

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