Bug 2264365 - CVE-2023-4408 dhcp: bind9: Parsing large DNS messages may cause excessive CPU load [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2023-4408 dhcp: bind9: Parsing large DNS messages may cause excessive CPU...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dhcp
Version: 39
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Osvald 🛹
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2023-4408
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-02-15 08:29 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2024-02-15 11:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2024-02-15 11:40:46 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2024-02-15 08:29:35 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263896

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2024-02-15 08:29:39 UTC
Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=high

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2263896,2264365

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Martin Osvald 🛹 2024-02-15 11:40:46 UTC
Dhcp is not affected by this flaw, because it doesn't parse dns messages, i.e. doesn't call the affected getquestions(), getsection() functions.

Upstream fix for reference (and regression fixes):

https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/720e737de47629f02ac74e20b327604de738e3ba
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/4c19d35614f8cd80d8748156a5bad361e19abc28
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/510f1de8a6add516b842a55750366944701d3d9a


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