CVE-2014-2032

Publication date 20 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Deadwood before 2.3.09, 3.x before 3.2.05, and as used in MaraDNS before 1.4.14 and 2.x before 2.0.09, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) by leveraging permission to perform recursive queries against Deadwood, related to missing input validation.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
maradns	13.10 saucy	Not affected
	12.10 quantal	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

The "deadwood" resolver isn't compiled in our packages

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H