-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-14:30.unbound Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: unbound remote denial of service vulnerability Category: contrib Module: unbound Announced: 2014-12-17 Affects: FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE and later Credits: Florian Maury (ANSSI) Corrected: 2014-12-17 06:58:00 UTC (stable/10, 10.1-STABLE) 2014-12-17 06:59:47 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p2) 2014-12-17 06:59:47 UTC (releng/10.0, 10.0-RELEASE-p14) CVE Name: CVE-2014-8602 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. II. Problem Description By causing queries to be made against a maliciously-constructed zone or against a malicious DNS server, an attacker who is able to cause specific queries to be sent to a nameserver can trick unbound(8) resolver into following an endless series of delegations, which consumes a lot of resources. III. Impact Unbound will spend a lot of resources on this query, and this will impact unbound's CPU and network resources. Unbound may therefore lose some ability or timelines for the service of customer queries (a denial of service). Unbound will continue to respond normally for cached queries. IV. Workaround No workaround is available, but hosts not running unbound(8) are not vulnerable. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. 2) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install 3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. [FreeBSD 10.x] # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:30/unbound.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:30/unbound.patch.asc # gpg --verify unbound.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as described in . Restart the unbound(8) daemons, or reboot the system. VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/10/ r275853 releng/10.0/ r275854 releng/10.1/ r275854 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUkTg1AAoJEO1n7NZdz2rn+iUP/3RP0KKn8B2SnSpSLbXws/eY GEOTYEsZJpGTtCyIg5eKmJ/AU7dKiD34da2uaL41Lt4hWa/Icyk13CtV6cK9TfN4 oSrrgDCbqErrFh74lhQX3v3bYHNMhZRVnaM9tHXHmpa9NAKhyTP+eyo+Ss7iK/am lVBW2xPv92OKyjo0Onp5h3o5QT6DHpPgW91f9He4GygYfShMXtOb+VhGpllxwbeM aS59yPkhGJLVhxQn2QtFpj67QxS5GIhK6iccwrRKo8Okij2mlRfR4fuD5Ol4L9TK sZKMGtgESPLGmfW1Pj/BRobyCWcs+cYLchZkxbomQBcH7ybpOMW+SqTB0FkZcscU ODMzvum2VZuSl5fAlu3F6V0/k+8cFiE4B/Xyioqa8aRsfYNfWjoETmfE7ld+zXqX 8cPizwGYdsuO4g6mNS0HFuuexkJem9qviRfnQUQ/EJQPNfXB33GYBoFquE0mvFUO WN5QiietSnNp4/TF+BjXlaeo/PtO+Q8xIdqgdSzouslx95a4j3N127k8Yoz55Nx+ 3mEeqvZRf5/7ieIgyHti/v/xKZOyGCs6NwlZ6xN+0kanNqMDfjpKnfzTJnnSTbj6 z6FCzXn986EqL8kpJisKZEJfntvZu4ft/KUo4qzZAtuNgnoUGFYXv5DfQrM75ZJ/ 9PFQzCA+8snPiCyUhAaC =fkvr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----