CVE-2005-0428: Powerdns

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DNSPacket::expand method in dnspacket.cc in PowerDNS before 2.9.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a random stream of bytes.

Affected products

• Powerdns Powerdns: version 2.0_rc1 only; version 2.8 only; version 2.9.15 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.