Bug 1164337

Summary: dnssec: ares: don't blindly trust the AD flag from nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) <psimerda>
Component: c-aresAssignee: Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) <psimerda>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 22CC: jhrozek, pspacek, tcallawa
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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 12:24:17 UTC Type: Bug
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a patch to clear AD flag unless the nameservers are read from /etc/resolve-secure.conf
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a simplified version of the patch, also handling the AD flag setting none

Description Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2014-11-14 17:16:40 UTC
Many network configuration services automatically put name servers into /etc/resolv.conf, which is then automatically read by c-ares, and applications using c-ares blindly trust the AD flag even though it doesn't come from a local (or otherwise trusted) resolver.

Comment 1 Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2014-11-14 17:17:33 UTC
Working on it, assigning to myself for now.

Comment 2 Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2014-11-14 22:55:46 UTC
Created attachment 957732 [details]
a patch to clear AD flag unless the nameservers are read from /etc/resolve-secure.conf

The attached patch implements one of the ways to handle the difference between trusted and untrusted resolvers. Patched c-ares first attempts to read /etc/resolv-secure.conf for trusted resolver configuration. If that's missing, it reads /etc/resolv.conf as usual but clears the AD flag from any response.

There have been other proposals like a directive to list trusted resolvers in the good old /etc/resolv.conf.

Comment 3 Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2014-11-16 11:12:08 UTC
Created attachment 957960 [details]
a simplified version of the patch, also handling the AD flag setting

Comment 4 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 17:05:27 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 5 Petr Spacek 2015-04-27 07:16:18 UTC
Dropping RHEL bug from block list.

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 12:24:17 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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