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authorVladimír Čunát <vladimir.cunat@nic.cz>2024-01-01 16:25:05 +0100
committerVladimír Čunát <vladimir.cunat@nic.cz>2024-02-13 09:49:54 +0100
commit7b31e7e473746a455b714b34601c91101afe6a58 (patch)
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parentmitigate KeyTrap DoS = CVE-2023-50387 (diff)
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update NEWS with KeyTrap
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@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ Security
* validator: limit the amount of work on SHA1 in NSEC3 proofs
* validator: refuse to validate answers with more than 8 NSEC3 records
+- CVE-2023-50387 "KeyTrap": DNSSEC verification complexity
+ could be exploited to exhaust CPU resources and stall DNS resolvers.
+ Solution boils down mainly to limiting crypto-validations per packet.
+
+ We would like to thank Elias Heftrig, Haya Schulmann, Niklas Vogel and Michael Waidner
+ from the German National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE
+ for bringing this vulnerability to our attention.
+
Improvements
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- update addresses of B.root-servers.net (!1478)