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Wind River Security Vulnerability Notice: Multiple vulnerabilities on dnsmasq

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Summary

Wind River Security Vulnerability Notice: Multiple vulnerabilities on dnsmasq


Affected Product Versions

Wind River Linux CD, Wind River Linux LTS 19, Wind River Linux LTS 18, Wind River Linux LTS 17, Wind River Linux 9

Description

CVE-2020-25681, CVE-2020-25682


There are seven CVE issues been found on dnsmasq, while CVE-2020-25681 and CVE-2020-25682 are fairly critical.

CVE-2020-25681:

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way RRSets are sorted before validating with DNSSEC data. An attacker on the network, who can forge DNS replies such as that they are accepted as valid, could use this flaw to cause a buffer overflow with arbitrary data in a heap memory segment, possibly executing code on the machine. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

CVE-2020-25682:

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the way dnsmasq extract names from DNS packets before validating them with DNSSEC data. An attacker on the network, who can create valid DNS replies, could use this flaw to cause an overflow with arbitrary data in a heap-allocated memory, possibly executing code on the machine. The flaw is in the rfc1035.c:extract_name() function, which writes data to the memory pointed by name assuming MAXDNAME*2 bytes are available in the buffer. However, in some code execution paths, it is possible extract_name() gets passed an offset from the base buffer, thus reducing, in practice, the number of available bytes that can be written in the buffer. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.


Affected Windriver Linux releases:

All releases including Wind River Linux LTS 19, Wind River Linux LTS 18, Wind River Linux LTS 17, Wind River Linux 9...

Affected software components:

dnsmasq

Affected hardware:

These are pure software issues.

Mitigation

All WRLinux releases effected by this issue and need source patches to avoid it. For details please contact our support team.


Additional References

Desriptions about all 7 CVEs of dnsmasq including these two:

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-019-01

dnsmasq's official upstream:

http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=summary

In the upstream git tree above, CVE and its fix commits:

CVE-2020-25681-3, 7 4e96a4be68
CVE-2020-25684 257ac0c5f7
CVE-2020-25685 2d765867c5, 2024f97297
CVE-2020-25686 15b60ddf93, 6a6e06fbb0


Changelog

  • 1/19/2021: Initial


Installation Notes

Please contact our support team to get detailed method to mitigate these CVE issues. Or waiting for our newest RCPL releases.


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