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CVE-2007-3409 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070701-01-P.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://osvdb.org/37054 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=27285 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25829 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26012 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26014 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26055 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26075 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26211 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26231 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26417 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26543 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29354 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1515 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-06.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:146 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Changes.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Release Notes 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_sr.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0674.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473871/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24669 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018376 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-483-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10595 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion cwe source acceptance level NIST   CISA-ADP  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-3409
NVD Published Date:
06/26/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.