Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting github.com/miekg/dns package, versions <1.0.4
Snyk CVSS
Threat Intelligence
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.
Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMMIEKGDNS-50059
- published 14 Feb 2018
- disclosed 24 Jan 2018
- credit Pedro Sampaio
Introduced: 24 Jan 2018
CVE-2017-15133 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade github.com/miekg/dns
to version 1.0.4 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of github.com/miekg/dns
are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS. A remote attacker could use carefully timed TCP packets to block the DNS server from accepting new connections.
Details
Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.
Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.
One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.
When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.
Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:
High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.
Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm
ws
package