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Mageia: 2019-0009 Moderate: PowerDNS Recursor Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2019-0009 - Updated pdns-recursor packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 05 J
A vulnerability was in found in PowerDNS Recursor

Summary

A vulnerability was in found in PowerDNS Recursor. The issue is a memory leak occurring while parsing some malformed records, due to the fact that some memory is allocated parsing a record and is not always properly released if the record is not valid. It allows a malicious auth server to cause a denial of service by sending specially crafted records in response to a legitimate query by an authorized user (CVE-2018-10851).
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor allowing a remote user to craft a DNS query that will cause an answer without DNSSEC records to be inserted into the packet cache and be returned to clients asking for DNSSEC records, thus hiding the presence of DNSSEC signatures for a specific qname and qtype. For a DNSSEC-signed domain, this means that clients performing DNSSEC validation by themselves might consider the answer to be bogus until it expires from the packet cache, leading to a denial of service (CVE-2018-14626).
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recur...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23815

- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-04.html

- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-06.html

- https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-07.html

- https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-09.html

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/U5BJ2CLRPCLSDHOH3VAABZZP4GVKGLL5/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10851

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14626

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14644

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16855

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/pdns-recursor-4.1.8-1.mga6

Publication date: 05 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0009.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-10851, CVE-2018-14626, CVE-2018-14644, CVE-2018-16855

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