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CVE-2017-15094

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

An issue has been found in the DNSSEC parsing code of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6 leading to a memory leak when parsing specially crafted DNSSEC ECDSA keys. These keys are only parsed when validation is enabled by setting dnssec to a value other than off or process-no-validate (default).

Affected products

• PowerDNS Recursor: from 4.0.0 through 4.0.6

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101982
• https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-07.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101982
• https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-07.html

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