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 de…

published 2018-03-20 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-2084

cvss: 5.9; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.9%; EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 links 1

maradns_project maradns 1.4.14, 2.0.09
deadwood_project deadwood 2.3.09, 3.2.05

samiam.org/blog/2014-02-12.html advisory

Is CVE-2014-2032 in your stack? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-2032 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 4.3

maradns: DoS due to incorrect bounds checking on certain strings

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	5.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

References

samiam.org /blog/2014-02-12.html
patch, vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/65595
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2014/02/19/15
mailing-list
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=1066609
issue-tracking
securitytracker.com /id/1029771
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/91204
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2014-2032
NVD CVE-2014-2032

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.