GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-5fm9-h728-fwpj trust-dns vulnerable to Remote Attackers causing Denial-of-Service (packet loops) with crafted DNS packets
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- trust-dns-server
- Severity
- Moderate
- Reviewed
- 2023-06-06
Affected packages
• crates.io trust-dns-server: < 0.22.1 → fixed in 0.22.1
• crates.io trust-dns-server: >= 0.23.0-alpha.2, < 0.23.0-alpha.3 → fixed in 0.23.0-alpha.3
Description
trust-dns and trust-dns-server are vulnerable to remotely triggered denial-of-service attacks, consuming both network and CPU resources.
DNS messages with the QR=1 bit set are responded to with a `FormErr` response.
This allows creating a traffic loop, in which these `FormErr` responses are sent nonstop between vulnerable servers.
There are two scenarios how this can be exploited: 1) Create a loop between two instances of trust-dns, consuming network resources, or 2) consuming the CPU of a single instance.
With two instances *A* and *B* an attacker sends a DNS query with a spoofed source IP address to *A*.
*A* replies with a `FormErr` to *B*.
Now both servers with ping-pong the message back and forth until by chance the packet is dropped in the network.
Multiple spoofed packets can be sent by the attacker, increasing resource consumption.
A single server can get locked up replying to itself.
Same setup as above, but now *A* sends the reply to itself.
The packet is sent out as fast as the CPU and network stack manage.
This locks up a CPU core.
Multiple packets from the attacker consume multiple CPU cores.