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Bug 941857 (CVE-2024-8508) - <net-dns/unbound-1.21.1: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-8508)
Summary: <net-dns/unbound-1.21.1: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of S...
Status: IN_PROGRESS
Alias: CVE-2024-8508
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound...
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa? cleanup]
Keywords: PullRequest
Depends on: 951871
Blocks:
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Reported: 2024-10-19 15:06 UTC by Han Mertens
Modified: 2025-04-03 15:26 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Han Mertens 2024-10-19 15:06:45 UTC 
See https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/security-advisories/ for details on the CVE.

The provided patch at https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/patch_CVE-2024-8508.diff cleanly applies to both version 1.19.3 and 1.20.0 currently in the tree and the resulting binaries seem to run fine.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2025-04-03 15:26:42 UTC 
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=177c7343405ee3e93d69ddfc22c5cfc25cba2bdd

commit 177c7343405ee3e93d69ddfc22c5cfc25cba2bdd
Author:     Christopher Fore <csfore@posteo.net>
AuthorDate: 2025-03-30 20:03:55 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2025-04-03 15:25:57 +0000

    net-dns/unbound: drop 1.19.3
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/941857
    Signed-off-by: Christopher Fore <csfore@posteo.net>
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 net-dns/unbound/Manifest              |   2 -
 net-dns/unbound/unbound-1.19.3.ebuild | 218 ----------------------------------
 2 files changed, 220 deletions(-)