CVE-2018-20994: Uncontrolled recursion in trust-dns-proto

August 25, 2021 (updated June 13, 2023)

There’s a stack overflow leading to a crash when Trust-DNS’s parses a malicious DNS packet. Affected versions of this crate did not properly handle parsing of DNS message compression (RFC1035 section 4.1.4). The parser could be tricked into infinite loop when a compression offset pointed back to the same domain name to be parsed. This allows an attacker to craft a malicious DNS packet which when consumed with Trust-DNS could cause stack overflow and crash the affected software.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-369h-pjr2-6wrh
github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20994
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0007.html

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