description: An issue has been found in the DNSSEC parsing code of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6 leading to a memory leak when parsing specially crafted DNSSEC ECDSA keys. These keys are only parsed when validation is enabled by setting dnssec to a value other than off or process-no-validate (default).
problem types: CWE-401
affected:
{
product: PowerDNS Recursor
vendor: PowerDNS
versions:
status: affected, version: from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6
}