Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8702

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-04-12 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:29:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The DNS::GetResult function in dns.cpp in InspIRCd before 2.0.19 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (netsplit) via an invalid character in a PTR response, as demonstrated by a "\032" (whitespace) character in a hostname.