Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting systemd package, versions <232-25+deb9u2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
95.51% (100th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-SYSTEMD-305075
- published 26 Oct 2017
- disclosed 26 Oct 2017
Introduced: 26 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15908 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
systemd
to version 232-25+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream systemd
package and not the systemd
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
In systemd 223 through 235, a remote DNS server can respond with a custom crafted DNS NSEC resource record to trigger an infinite loop in the dns_packet_read_type_window() function of the 'systemd-resolved' service and cause a DoS of the affected service.