CVE-2008-5277: Powerdns

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PowerDNS before 2.9.21.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a CH HINFO query.

Affected products

• Powerdns Powerdns: up to and including 2.9.21.1; version 1.99.1 only; version 1.99.2 only; version 1.99.3 only; version 1.99.4 only; version 1.99.5 only; …

Published 2008-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.