CVE-2005-0037

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-0037 · Published 31/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-0037 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting dnrd (dnrd).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 76.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dnrd dnrd	`= 1.0= 1.1= 1.2= 1.3= 1.4= 2.0= 2.1= 2.2= 2.3= 2.4= 2.5= 2.6= 2.7= 2.8= 2.9`	No fix yet

Description

The DNS implementation of DNRD before 2.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed DNS packet with a label length byte with an incorrect offset, which could trigger an infinite loop.

References

niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050524-00433.html · Patch
niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20050524-00432.pdf
osvdb.org/25291
securityfocus.com/bid/13729

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