- Reported
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- Issued
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- Package
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trust-dns-server
(crates.io)
- Type
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Vulnerability
- Categories
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- Keywords
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#packet-loop
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- Patched
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Description
trust-dns and trust-dns-server are vulnerable to remotely triggered denial-of-service attacks, consuming both network and CPU resources.
DNS messages with the QR=1 bit set are responded to with a FormErr response.
This allows creating a traffic loop, in which these FormErr responses are sent nonstop between vulnerable servers.
There are two scenarios how this can be exploited: 1) Create a loop between two instances of trust-dns, consuming network resources, or 2) consuming the CPU of a single instance.
With two instances A and B an attacker sends a DNS query with a spoofed source IP address to A.
A replies with a FormErr to B.
Now both servers with ping-pong the message back and forth until by chance the packet is dropped in the network.
Multiple spoofed packets can be sent by the attacker, increasing resource consumption.
A single server can get locked up replying to itself.
Same setup as above, but now A sends the reply to itself.
The packet is sent out as fast as the CPU and network stack manage.
This locks up a CPU core.
Multiple packets from the attacker consume multiple CPU cores.
Advisory available under CC0-1.0
license.