CVE-2005-0036: Delegate

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DNS implementation in DeleGate 8.10.2 and earlier 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.

Affected products

• Delegate Delegate: up to and including 8.10.2; version 5.9.3 only; version 7.7.0 only; version 7.7.1 only; version 7.8.0 only; version 7.8.1 only; …
• Etl Delegate: version 5.9 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.