Resource Exhaustion Affecting unbound-debuginfo package, versions <0:1.6.6-5.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-UNBOUNDDEBUGINFO-1682320
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed27 Nov 2020

Introduced: 27 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-10772  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 unbound-debuginfo to version 0:1.6.6-5.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2020-1463.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream unbound-debuginfo package and not the unbound-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662 was shipped for Unbound in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as part of erratum RHSA-2020:2414. Vulnerable versions of Unbound could still amplify an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target, even with a lower amplification ratio compared to versions of Unbound that shipped before the mentioned erratum. This issue is about the incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662, and it does not affect upstream versions of Unbound.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1