Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-2097 - Denial of Service vulnerability in MaraDNS
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The compression code in MaraDNS before 0.9.01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted DNS packets.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 5 |
Nessus
| NASL family | DNS |
| NASL id | MARADNS_0_9_01.NASL |
| description | According to its self-reported version number, the MaraDNS server running on the remote host is affected by a memory leak issue due to the compression code. This issue could allow a remote attacker to cause a remote denial of service by sending a specially crafted DNS packet. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 73474 |
| published | 2014-04-11 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/73474 |
| title | MaraDNS 0.5.x < 0.5.31 / 0.9.x < 0.9.01 Compression Code Remote DoS |