Security Advisories (6)
Allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program "croak") via a crafted DNS response.
Net::DNS before 0.60, a Perl module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a malformed compressed DNS packet with self-referencing pointers, which triggers an infinite loop.
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=27285
- http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Changes.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-06.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:146
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0674.html
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070701-01-P.asc
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_sr.html
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-483-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24669
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018376
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25829
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26014
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26055
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26012
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26075
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26211
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26231
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26417
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26543
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1515
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29354
- http://osvdb.org/37054
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10595
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473871/100/0/threaded
Header.pm in Net::DNS before 0.60, a Perl module, (1) generates predictable sequence IDs with a fixed increment and (2) can use the same starting ID for all child processes of a forking server, which allows remote attackers to spoof DNS responses, as originally reported for qpsmtp and spamassassin.
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2006/03/msg4810.html
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=23961
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245458
- http://www.net-dns.org/docs/Changes.html
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-351.htm
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-06.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:146
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0674.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0675.html
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070701-01-P.asc
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_sr.html
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-483-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24669
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018377
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25829
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26014
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26055
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26012
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26075
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26211
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26231
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26417
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26508
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26543
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1515
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29354
- http://osvdb.org/37053
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35112
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9904
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473871/100/0/threaded
Net::DNS versions through 1.55 for Perl allow remote execution injection via EDNS EXTENDED ERROR. Net::DNS::RR::OPT::EXTENDED_ERROR::_decompose parses the EXTRA-TEXT field of an EDNS EXTENDED-ERROR option (RFC 8914) by tokenising the raw bytes and passing the result to Perl's eval. There is some escaping done for $ and @, but not for backticks. This can be exploited for command execution if $pkt->edns->option('EXTENDED-ERROR') is called in array context, for example with a payload of {0:`"<command>"`} in EXTRA-TEXT.
Net::DNS versions through 1.55 for Perl allow Denial of Service via deep DNS compression pointer chains. Net::DNS::DomainName::decode follows RFC 1035 compression pointers by recursing into itself with no depth limit. It is possible to construct a name which saturates the call stack (at least with larger TCP responses), leading to a potential Denial of Service. The guard `$link < $offset` prevents forward and circular chains, but still allows arbitrarily long backward chains. The per-offset cache (`$cache`) is populated at the start of each call and short-circuits only re-traverses of the same offset - the initial descent through a fresh chain still recurses at full depth. A crafted packet can chain two-byte compression pointers so that each one points two bytes earlier than the previous, producing a chain length of `offset / 2`. For the 14-bit pointer field (max offset 16383) this gives up to ~8191 recursive frames. For a TCP DNS message the limit is the 16-bit length field (~32767 frames). Perl's default C stack handles only a few thousand frames; beyond that the process receives SIGSEGV or similar, which is a denial-of-service for any application parsing untrusted DNS data. The vulnerability is triggered by `Net::DNS::Packet->new(\$wire)` i.e. any point where the library decodes a DNS message from the network.
Net::DNS versions before 1.57 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded recursion in sig_data when re-encoding a message with a misplaced TSIG record. sig_data signs a message by re-encoding it, and removes TSIG records only from the additional section. A TSIG decoded into the answer or authority section survives that step and is signed again, so encoding re-enters sig_data with no termination condition. Decoding does not reject such a message: a TSIG that is not the last record on the wire raises "misplaced or corrupt TSIG", but the error is caught, reported as a warning, and the record is left in the packet. RFC 8945 section 5.2 requires the message to be dropped. The recursion is reached only when the decoded TSIG carries an empty MAC, since a MAC recovered from the wire short-circuits the signing step. It is reached only from code that re-encodes a message it decoded, such as a forwarder or a proxy. A decoded message that is never re-encoded is unaffected. Message direction does not matter: a query reaches the same path as a response. Each cycle re-encodes the whole message, so fewer than 100 bytes on the wire exhaust available memory and terminate the process.
- https://metacpan.org/release/NLNETLABS/Net-DNS-1.56/source/lib/Net/DNS/RR/TSIG.pm#L245-262
- https://metacpan.org/release/NLNETLABS/Net-DNS-1.56/source/lib/Net/DNS/RR/TSIG.pm#L62-73
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8945#section-5.2
- https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=181125
- https://metacpan.org/release/NLNETLABS/Net-DNS-1.57/changes
NAME
Net::DNS::RR::ISDN - DNS ISDN resource record
SYNOPSIS
use Net::DNS::RR;
DESCRIPTION
Class for DNS ISDN resource records.
METHODS
address
print "address = ", $rr->address, "\n";
Returns the RR's address field.
sa
print "subaddress = ", $rr->sa, "\n";
Returns the RR's subaddress field.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Fuhr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
perl(1), Net::DNS, Net::DNS::Resolver, Net::DNS::Packet, Net::DNS::Header, Net::DNS::Question, Net::DNS::RR, RFC 1183 Section 3.2
Module Install Instructions
To install Net::DNS, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm Net::DNS
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Net::DNS
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.