Bug 2279942 (CVE-2024-33655)

Summary: CVE-2024-33655 unbound: DNSBomb vulnerability
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
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A DNSBomb flaw was found in the unbound package. The DNSBomb attack works by sending low-rate spoofed queries for a malicious zone to Unbound. By controlling the delay of the malicious authoritative answers, Unbound slowly accumulates pending answers for the spoofed addresses. When the authoritative answers become available to Unbound at the same time, Unbound starts serving all the accumulated queries. This results in large-sized, concentrated response bursts to the spoofed addresses.
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2024-05-10 04:03:24 UTC
The DNSBomb attack, via specially timed DNS queries and answers, can cause a Denial of Service on resolvers and spoofed targets.

Unbound itself is not vulnerable for DoS, rather it can be used to take part in a pulsing DoS amplification attack.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-05-10 04:08:19 UTC
Created unbound tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2279944]