vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-5a1c2e06-3fb7-11ed-a402-b42e991fc52e (CVE-2022-3204): unbound -- Non-Responsive Delegation Attack

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 29, 2022
Added
Nov 4, 2022
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerability named 'Non-Responsive Delegation Attack' (NRDelegation Attack) has been discovered in various DNS resolving software. The NRDelegation Attack works by having a malicious delegation with a considerable number of non responsive nameservers. The attack starts by querying a resolver for a record that relies on those unresponsive nameservers. The attack can cause a resolver to spend a lot of time/resources resolving records under a malicious delegation point where a considerable number of unresponsive NS records reside. It can trigger high CPU usage in some resolver implementations that continually look in the cache for resolved NS records in that delegation. .

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-unbound
Title
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