FreeBSD: VID-108A4BE3-E612-11E9-9963-5F1753E0ACA0 (CVE-2019-16866): unbound -- parsing vulnerability
Description
Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.
From VID-108A4BE3-E612-11E9-9963-5F1753E0ACA0:
Unbound Security Advisories:
Due to an error in parsing NOTIFY queries, it is possible for Unbound
to continue processing malformed queries and may ultimately result in a
pointer dereference in uninitialized memory. This results in a crash of
the Unbound daemon.
Solution(s)
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