Mend.io Vulnerability Database

What is a CVE vulnerability ID? icon What is a WS vulnerability ID? icon What is an MSC vulnerability ID? icon
New vulnerability? Tell us about it!
icon

We found results for “”

CVE-2015-8702

Date: April 12, 2016

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.

Language: C++

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3527
https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/6058483d9fbc1b904d5ae7cfea47bfcde5c5b559
https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/issues/1033
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8702
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8702
http://www.inspircd.org/2015/04/16/v2019-released.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8702
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-13
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-8702

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
Additional information:

Do you need more information?

Contact Us