{"action":"Upgrade pdns-recursor to 4.1.8-r0 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"4.1.8-r0","introduced":"0"}],"component":"pdns-recursor","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.8","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["4.1.8-r0"],"id":"tcs_01M6GB6VST533H7EJCVD4YVFQ9","modified_at":"2026-11-03T06:30:41.430481244Z","published_at":"2018-12-03T14:29:00.257Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-16855","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-16855"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2018-16855#Alpine:v3.8/pdns-recursor","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-16855"}],"summary":"An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before version 4.1.8 where a remote attacker sending a DNS query can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read while computing the hash of the query for a packe"}