### [CVE-2016-5427](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5427)
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### Description

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cve-scores