CVE-2018-14644

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers for that parent zone answer with FORMERR to a query for at least one of the meta-types. As a result, subsequent queries from clients requesting DNSSEC validation will be answered with a ServFail.

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 Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers for that parent zone answer with FORMERR to a query for at least one of the meta-types. As a result, subsequent queries from clients requesting DNSSEC validation will be answered with a ServFail (CVE-2018-14644).

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor where a remote attacker sending a DNS query can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read while computing the hash of the query for a packet cache lookup, possibly leading to a crash (CVE-2018-16855).

This update for pdns-recursor to version 4.1.8 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2018-10851: Fixed denial of service via crafted zone record or crafted answer (bsc#1114157).
• CVE-2018-14644: Fixed denial of service via crafted query for meta-types (bsc#1114170).
• CVE-2018-14626: Fixed packet cache pollution via crafted query (bsc#1114169).
• CVE-2018-16855: Fixed case where a crafted query could cause a denial of service (bsc#1116592)

Non-security issues fixed:

• Fixed build failure with Boost 1.67.0 (bsc#1089814).
• Revert ‘Keep the EDNS status of a server on FormErr with EDNS’
• Refuse queries for all meta-types

For more details about this update, refer to: https://blog.powerdns.com/2018/11/26/powerdns-recursor-4-1-8-released/

This update for pdns-recursor fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2018-10851: Fixed denial of service via crafted zone record or crafted answer (bsc#1114157).
• CVE-2018-14644: Fixed denial of service via crafted query for meta-types (bsc#1114170).
• CVE-2018-14626: Fixed packet cache pollution via crafted query (bsc#1114169).
• CVE-2018-16855: Fixed case where a crafted query could cause a denial of service (bsc#1116592)

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.0:Update update project.

These are all security issues fixed in the pdns-recursor-4.5.5-1.3 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Wei Hao discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server incorrectly handled memory when accessing certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to achieve arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2018-1046)

It was discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server and PowerDNS Recursor incorrectly handled memory when receiving certain remote input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. (CVE-2018-10851)

Kees Monshouwer discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server and PowerDNS Recursor incorrectly handled request validation after having cached malformed input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. (CVE-2018-14626)

Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that PowerDNS Recursor incorrectly handled requests after having cached malformed input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. (CVE-2018-14644)

Nathaniel Ferguson discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server incorrectly handled memory when receiving certain remote input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2020-17482)

Nicolas Dehaine and Dmitry Shabanov discovered that PowerDNS Authoritative Server and PowerDNS Recursor incorrectly handled IXFR requests in certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-27227)