CVE-2005-0038: Powerdns

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DNS implementation of PowerDNS 2.9.16 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

• Powerdns Powerdns: up to and including 2.9.16; version 2.0_rc1 only; version 2.8 only; version 2.9.0 only; version 2.9.1 only; version 2.9.2 only; …

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