Summary
The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.
Security Fix(es):
* unbound: unrestricted reconfiguration enabled to anyone that may lead to local privilege escalation (CVE-2024-1488)
* unbound: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-8508)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Fixed packages 4
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 8 | python3-unbound | 1.16.2-5.8.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | unbound | 1.16.2-5.8.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | unbound-devel | 1.16.2-5.8.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | unbound-libs | 1.16.2-5.8.el8_10 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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High 8.0
Unbound: unrestricted reconfiguration enabled to anyone that may lead to local privilege escalation
A vulnerability was found in Unbound due to incorrect default permissions, allowing any process outside the unbound group to modify the unbound runtime configuration. If a process can connect over localhost to port 8953, it can alter the configuration of unbo…
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Medium 5.3
Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service
NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.21.0 contains a vulnerability when handling replies with very large RRsets that it needs to perform name compression for. Malicious upstreams responses with very large RRsets can cause Unbound to spend a consid…