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BIND TSIG Query Denial of Service

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Disclosed
Sep 27, 2016
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

A defect in the rendering of messages into packets can cause named to
exit with an assertion failure in buffer.c while constructing a response
to a query that meets certain criteria.

This assertion can be triggered even if the apparent source address
isn't allowed to make queries.

Authors

Martin Rocha
Ezequiel Tavella
Alejandro Parodi
Infobyte Research Team

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/dns/bind_tsig
    msf auxiliary(bind_tsig) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(bind_tsig) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(bind_tsig) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(bind_tsig) > run
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