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CVE-2007-3409

high

Description

Net::DNS before 0.60, a Perl module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a malformed compressed DNS packet with self-referencing pointers, which triggers an infinite loop.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-483-1

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0674.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:146

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-06.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1515

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10595

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018376

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24669

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473871/100/0/threaded

http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Changes.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/29354

http://secunia.com/advisories/26543

http://secunia.com/advisories/26417

http://secunia.com/advisories/26231

http://secunia.com/advisories/26211

http://secunia.com/advisories/26075

http://secunia.com/advisories/26055

http://secunia.com/advisories/26014

http://secunia.com/advisories/26012

http://secunia.com/advisories/25829

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=27285

http://osvdb.org/37054

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-06-26

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03489