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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.143262
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Knot Resolver < 4.3.0 DoS Vulnerability
Summary:Knot Resolver is prone to a denial of service vulnerability through high; CPU utilization.
Description:Summary:
Knot Resolver is prone to a denial of service vulnerability through high
CPU utilization.

Vulnerability Insight:
DNS replies with very many resource records might be processed very
inefficiently, in extreme cases taking even several CPU seconds for each such uncached message. For example, a
few thousand A records can be squashed into one DNS message (limit is 64kB).

Affected Software/OS:
Knot Resolver prior to version 4.3.0.

Solution:
Update to version 4.3.0.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-19331
https://www.knot-resolver.cz/2019-12-04-knot-resolver-4.3.0.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00017.html
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