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CVE-2015-8702

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The DNS::GetResult function in dns.cpp in InspIRCd before 2.0.19 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (netsplit) via an invalid character in a PTR response, as demonstrated by a "\032" (whitespace) character in a hostname.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Inspircd: through 2.0.18

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3527
• http://www.inspircd.org/2015/04/16/v2019-released.html
• https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/6058483d9fbc1b904d5ae7cfea47bfcde5c5b559
• https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/issues/1033
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-13
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3527
• http://www.inspircd.org/2015/04/16/v2019-released.html
• https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/6058483d9fbc1b904d5ae7cfea47bfcde5c5b559
• https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/issues/1033
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-13

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