Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package unbound  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-UNBOUND-570215
  • published19 May 2020
  • disclosed19 May 2020

Introduced: 19 May 2020

CVE-2020-12662  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream unbound package and not the unbound package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Unbound before 1.10.1 has Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records.