Security advisory

{
  "id": "1171c98f4fcc28367af1288345837bc374b2a6fb9bdabc30ed2092d43006b91b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2120",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-2120",
    "summary": "An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3.4.10, 4.0.1 allowing an authorized user to crash the server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control then sending a DNS query for that record. The issue is due to an integer overflow when checking if the content of the record matches the expected size, allowing an attacker to cause a read past the buffer boundary.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-2120",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-2120",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-2120"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/powerdns/pdns",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "225c3cfed68ac6f8bd3af413003ca0c46312ac5c"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "ba64cecd417688dc39c75e92f1a23b91f7f46d64"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "c3a33379007e61752ab977eae8075d8a98529011"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.4.10"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.0.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "auth-3.4.10",
            "rec-4.0.1",
            "auth-4.0.1",
            "auth-3.4.9",
            "rec-4.0.0",
            "auth-4.0.0",
            "auth-3.4.8",
            "auth-3.4.7",
            "auth-3.4.6",
            "auth-3.4.5",
            "auth-3.4.4",
            "auth-3.4.3",
            "auth-3.4.2",
            "auth-3.4.1",
            "auth-3.4.0",
            "auth-3.4.0-rc2",
            "rec-3.6.0",
            "auth-3.4.0-rc1",
            "rec-3.5",
            "rec-3.5-rc5",
            "rec-3.5-rc4",
            "rec-3.5-rc3",
            "rec-3.5-rc1",
            "auth-3.2-rc4",
            "auth-3.2-rc3",
            "auth-3.2-rc2",
            "auth-3.2-rc1",
            "auth-3.1-rc3",
            "auth-3.1-rc2",
            "auth-3.1-rc1",
            "rec-3.3.1",
            "rec-3.1.4",
            "rec-3.0.1",
            "rec-3-0-1",
            "rec-3.0",
            "rec-3-0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2120.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:46.435351438Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3764",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-2120"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-2120",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436331,
  "published_at": "2018-11-01T13:29:00.253+00:00"
}