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Multiple Vendor DNS Response Flooding Denial Of Service
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
17 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
Multiple DNS vendors are reported susceptible to a denial of service vulnerability (Axis Communication, dnrd, Don Moore, Posadis).
Insight
Insight
This vulnerability results in vulnerable DNS servers entering into an infinite query and response message loop, leading to the consumption of network and CPU resources, and denying DNS service to legitimate users.
Solution
Solution
Please see the reference for platform specific remediations.