Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-0038

Title: DNRD compressed DNS packet infinite loop DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-0038.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-0038: 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.

Impacted Vendors

powerdns 1

Reference Links

http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050524-00433.html http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20050524-00432.pdf?lang=en http://www.osvdb.org/25291 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13729 http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050524-00433.html http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20050524-00432.pdf?lang=en http://www.osvdb.org/25291 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13729

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-0038 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.