Ubuntu Security Update USN-4374-1: Unbound vulnerabilities

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unbound vulnerabilities


A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 19.10
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Summary


Several security issues were fixed in Unbound.

Software Description

  • unbound - validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver
Details


Lior Shafir, Yehuda Afek, and Anat Bremler-Barr discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain queries. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an amplification attack directed at a target. (CVE-2020-12662)

It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain malformed answers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Unbound to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-12663)

Update instructions


The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
libunbound8 - 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.1
unbound - 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 19.10
libunbound8 - 1.9.0-2ubuntu1.1
unbound - 1.9.0-2ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libunbound2 - 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.3
unbound - 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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