CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-20994

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Aug 26, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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An issue was discovered in the trust-dns-proto crate before 0.5.0-alpha.3 for Rust. There is infinite recursion because DNS message compression is mishandled.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Trust-dns-protoTrust-dns-proto_project*0.4.3 (excluding)
Trust-dns-protoTrust-dns-proto_project0.5.0-alpha.1 (including)0.5.0-alpha.1 (including)
Trust-dns-protoTrust-dns-proto_project0.5.0-alpha.2 (including)0.5.0-alpha.2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References