CVE-2024-8418

high

Description

A flaw was found in Aardvark-dns versions 1.12.0 and 1.12.1. They contain a denial of service vulnerability due to serial processing of TCP DNS queries. This flaw allows a malicious client to keep a TCP connection open indefinitely, causing other DNS queries to time out and resulting in a denial of service for all other containers using aardvark-dns.

References

https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/pull/503

https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/issues/500

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309683

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8418

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-09-04

Updated: 2024-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High