Bug 1213377 (CVE-2015-1868) - CVE-2015-1868 pdns: Label decompression bug in PowerDNS can cause crashes on specific platforms
Summary: CVE-2015-1868 pdns: Label decompression bug in PowerDNS can cause crashes on ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-1868
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1213832 1214703
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-20 12:28 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:22 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.3, PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.2, PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-06-10 20:34:36 UTC
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-20 12:28:23 UTC
PowerDNS project has reported the following issue in PowerDNS:
"""
A bug was discovered in our label decompression code, making it possible for
names to refer to themselves, thus causing a loop during decompression. This
loop is capped at a 1000 iterations by a failsafe, making the issue harmless
on most platforms.

However, on specific platforms , the recursion involved in these 1000 steps causes memory
corruption leading to a quick crash, presumably because the default stack is
too small.

We recommend that all users upgrade to a corrected version if at all possible.
Alternatively, if you want to apply a minimal fix to your own tree, it can be
found in two parts:
https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/commit/adb10be102ddd4d2baf7a8adbb5673946fe5e555
https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/commit/3ec3e0fc71bc89ac41c7e6d8cd3f323f25233881
These should be trivial to backport to older versions by hand.

As for workarounds, only clients in allow-from are able to trigger the
degraded service, so this should be limited to your userbase; further,  we
recommend running your critical services under supervision such as systemd,
supervisord, daemontools, etc.
"""

Acknowledements:

Red Hat would like to thank the PowerDNS upstream project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Aki Tuomi as the original reporter.

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-04-23 12:19:11 UTC
Created pdns tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1214703]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1213832]

Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-04-23 12:23:15 UTC
External References:

https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 19:17:17 UTC
pdns-recursor-3.7.2-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 19:17:25 UTC
pdns-recursor-3.7.2-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 19:17:39 UTC
pdns-3.3.1-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 19:20:36 UTC
pdns-recursor-3.6.3-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 19:20:43 UTC
pdns-3.4.4-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-04-30 11:39:20 UTC
pdns-recursor-3.7.2-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-04-30 11:40:16 UTC
pdns-recursor-3.7.2-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-04-30 11:41:41 UTC
pdns-3.3.1-3.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-04-30 11:43:37 UTC
pdns-3.4.4-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2015-04-30 11:46:07 UTC
pdns-recursor-3.7.2-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2015-04-30 11:48:18 UTC
pdns-3.4.4-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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