Upstream information

CVE-2022-37428 at MITRE

Description

PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specific properties.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 6.5 6.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1202664 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4
  • pdns-recursor >= 4.6.3-bp154.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2022-10171
openSUSE Leap 15.4
  • pdns-recursor >= 4.6.3-bp154.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2022-10171
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • pdns-recursor >= 4.7.2-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12281

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Aug 24 02:00:04 2022
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 19:37:41 2025