Untrusted Pointer Dereference Affecting unbound-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-UNBOUNDLIBS-1333821
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed3 Oct 2019

Introduced: 3 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-16866  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-822  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 unbound-libs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream unbound-libs package and not the unbound-libs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Unbound before 1.9.4 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to trigger a crash via a crafted NOTIFY query. The source IP address of the query must match an access-control rule.

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