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.
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net::dns | Net-dns | * | 0.60 (excluding) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | RedHat | perl-Net-DNS-0:0.31-4.el3 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | RedHat | perl-Net-DNS-0:0.59-3.el5 | * |
| Libnet-dns-perl | Ubuntu | dapper | * |
| Libnet-dns-perl | Ubuntu | edgy | * |
| Libnet-dns-perl | Ubuntu | feisty | * |
| Libnet-dns-perl | Ubuntu | upstream | * |