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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:44:25 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: cve-assign@...re.org
cc: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request New-djbdns: dnscache: possible DoS
+-- On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, cve-assign@...re.org wrote --+
| Changing the TCP read approach can be considered a performance
| improvement (and, somewhat marginally, a security improvement), with
| no CVE assignment. The commit mentions "making slight gain in
| performance" and "could also lead to potential denial of service."
Yes, slight gain because it reduces 'read(2)' calls. And potential DoS
because:
On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 5:22 AM, Frank Denis wrote:
>
> ...
> The spike of CPU between the first query for a name/type and
> its resolution is an old standing bug.
>
> ... We spawn dnscache threads to balance the load on all CPU cores.
> And when running the PoC, the whole system starts crawling because
> of the high number of system calls.
'Frank Denis' is the author of the PoC and earlier article about the SipHash
issue.
| The original implementation might have chosen its approach for
| design-for-auditability reasons, i.e., it may not have been a "mistake" at
| all. It seems impractical to assign CVE IDs to all opportunities to speed up
| the processing of untrusted input in all products. The situation would be
| different if it were clearly a logic error in the code, e.g., processing the
| first byte once, the second byte four times, the third byte nine times, etc.
I don't understand why is it relevant whether it's a genuine mistake or
logic error or an intentional bug?
The behaviour opens room for a practical DoS attack. That is a security
issue. There is a PoC available for it. There is fix available for it, which
has been applied. Why not a CVE?
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team
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