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FreeBSD: VID-D70D5E0A-1F5E-11F0-9C67-6805CA2FA271 (CVE-2025-30195): powerdns-recursor -- denial of service

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FreeBSD: VID-D70D5E0A-1F5E-11F0-9C67-6805CA2FA271 (CVE-2025-30195): powerdns-recursor -- denial of service

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/07/2025
Created
05/06/2025
Added
05/02/2025
Modified
05/09/2025

Description

An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Processing and caching results for these sets can lead to an illegal memory accesses and crash of the Recursor, causing a denial of service.

The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 5.2.1 version.

We would like to thank Volodymyr Ilyin for bringing this issue to our attention.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-powerdns-recursor

References

  • CVE-2025-30195

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