Service interruption via misaligned zone-file load
Published Jun 6, 2024 · Updated Feb 13, 2025
Undefined behavior in robdns commit d76d2e6 allows attackers to interrupt DNS service when a crafted zone file is loaded. In insert_block_into_catalog, zonefile-insertion.c casts a byte-buffer offset to unsigned* and dereferences it without ensuring four-byte alignment. Reachability requires the server to parse the affected record layout; public sources do not specify whether the availability loss is a crash or another interruption.
Summary
What happened
Undefined behavior in robdns commit d76d2e6 allows attackers to interrupt DNS service when a crafted zone file is loaded. In insert_block_into_catalog, zonefile-insertion.c casts a byte-buffer offset to unsigned* and dereferences it without ensuring four-byte alignment. Reachability requires the server to parse the affected record layout; public sources do not specify whether the availability loss is a crash or another interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-24195
- Published
- Jun 6, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Vendor
- Robert Graham
- Product
- robdns
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jun 6, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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