CVE-2018-10851

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10851

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10851.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-12

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-13

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.1.5-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.1.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.1.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.1.5-1
debian debiansidfixed4.1.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.1.5-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.