Security advisory

{
  "id": "04831e7940402af5eb14af5e2882246dbdce8d15cd9c211fdf476386e07de981",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15094",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-15094",
    "summary": "An issue has been found in the DNSSEC parsing code of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6 leading to a memory leak when parsing specially crafted DNSSEC ECDSA keys. These keys are only parsed when validation is enabled by setting dnssec to a value other than off or process-no-validate (default).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-15094",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-15094",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-15094"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/powerdns/pdns",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "ba64cecd417688dc39c75e92f1a23b91f7f46d64"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f8023470fdd6c5af6f163857757a90f5955a860e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.0.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "rec-4.0.6",
            "rec-4.0.5",
            "rec-4.0.5-rc2",
            "rec-4.0.5-rc1",
            "rec-4.0.4",
            "rec-4.0.3",
            "dnsdist-1.1.0-beta1",
            "rec-4.0.2",
            "rec-4.0.1",
            "auth-4.0.1",
            "rec-4.0.0",
            "auth-4.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15094.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:40.498514660Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-07.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-15094",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434930,
  "published_at": "2018-01-23T15:29:00.417+00:00"
}