Vulnerability CVE-2024-1931: Information

Description

NLnet Labs Unbound version 1.18.0 up to and including version 1.19.1 contain a vulnerability that can cause denial of service by a certain code path that can lead to an infinite loop. Unbound 1.18.0 introduced a feature that removes EDE records from responses with size higher than the client's advertised buffer size. Before removing all the EDE records however, it would try to see if trimming the extra text fields on those records would result in an acceptable size while still retaining the EDE codes. Due to an unchecked condition, the code that trims the text of the EDE records could loop indefinitely. This happens when Unbound would reply with attached EDE information on a positive reply and the client's buffer size is smaller than the needed space to include EDE records. The vulnerability can only be triggered when the 'ede: yes' option is used; non default configuration. From version 1.19.2 on, the code is fixed to avoid looping indefinitely.

Published: March 7, 2024
Modified: April 28, 2024

Fixed packages

Package name
Branch
Fixed in version
Version from repository
Errata ID
Task #
State
unboundsisyphus1.19.2-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3769-1342435Fixed
unboundsisyphus_e2k1.19.2-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3821-1-Fixed
unboundsisyphus_riscv641.19.2-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-4011-1-Fixed
unboundsisyphus_loongarch641.19.2-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3826-1-Fixed
unboundp101.19.2-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3776-2342445Fixed
unboundp10_e2k1.19.2-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-4022-1-Fixed
unboundp91.19.3-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-4896-2342778Fixed
unboundc10f11.19.2-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3945-2342458Fixed
unboundc9f21.19.2-alt11.20.0-alt1ALT-PU-2024-3780-2342456Fixed

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