In an era where everything has an MMU, this looks like
an anachronism, and it adds to (Ok, multiplies!) the
combinatorial explosion of compile-time options.
For ease of implementaion, dnsmasq has always forked a new process to
handle each incoming TCP connection. A side-effect of this is that any
DNS queries answered from TCP connections are not cached: when TCP
connections were rare, this was not a problem. With the coming of
DNSSEC, it's now the case that some DNSSEC queries have answers which
spill to TCP, and if, for instance, this applies to the keys for the
root then those never get cached, and performance is very bad. This
fix passes cache entries back from the TCP child process to the main
server process, and fixes the problem.
Change anti cache-snooping behaviour with queries with the
recursion-desired bit unset. Instead to returning SERVFAIL, we
now always forward, and never answer from the cache. This
allows "dig +trace" command to work.
Dnsmasq does pass on the do-bit, and return DNSSEC RRs, irrespective
of of having DNSSEC validation compiled in or enabled.
The thing to understand here is that the cache does not store all the
DNSSEC RRs, and dnsmasq doesn't have the (very complex) logic required
to determine the set of DNSSEC RRs required in an answer. Therefore if
the client wants the DNSSEC RRs, the query can not be answered from
the cache. When DNSSEC validation is enabled, any query with the
do-bit set is never answered from the cache, unless the domain is
known not to be signed: the query is always forwarded. This ensures
that the DNSEC RRs are included.
The same thing should be true when DNSSEC validation is not enabled,
but there's a bug in the logic.
line 1666 of src/rfc1035.c looks like this
if ((crecp->flags & (F_HOSTS | F_DHCP | F_CONFIG)) || !do_bit || !(crecp->flags & F_DNSSECOK))
{ ...answer from cache ... }
So local stuff (hosts, DHCP, ) get answered. If the do_bit is not set
then the query is answered, and if the domain is known not to be
signed, the query is answered.
Unfortunately, if DNSSEC validation is not turned on then the
F_DNSSECOK bit is not valid, and it's always zero, so the question
always gets answered from the cache, even when the do-bit is set.
This code should look like that at line 1468, dealing with PTR queries
if ((crecp->flags & (F_HOSTS | F_DHCP | F_CONFIG)) ||
!do_bit ||
(option_bool(OPT_DNSSEC_VALID) && !(crecp->flags & F_DNSSECOK)))
where the F_DNSSECOK bit is only used when validation is enabled.
It's OK for NSEC records to be expanded from wildcards,
but in that case, the proof of non-existence is only valid
starting at the wildcard name, *.<domain> NOT the name expanded
from the wildcard. Without this check it's possible for an
attacker to craft an NSEC which wrongly proves non-existence
in a domain which includes a wildcard for NSEC.
dnsmasq allows to specify a interface for each name server passed with
the -S option or pushed through D-Bus; when an interface is set,
queries to the server will be forced via that interface.
Currently dnsmasq uses SO_BINDTODEVICE to enforce that traffic goes
through the given interface; SO_BINDTODEVICE also guarantees that any
response coming from other interfaces is ignored.
This can cause problems in some scenarios: consider the case where
eth0 and eth1 are in the same subnet and eth0 has a name server ns0
associated. There is no guarantee that the response to a query sent
via eth0 to ns0 will be received on eth0 because the local router may
have in the ARP table the MAC address of eth1 for the IP of eth0. This
can happen because Linux sends ARP responses for all the IPs of the
machine through all interfaces. The response packet on the wrong
interface will be dropped because of SO_BINDTODEVICE and the
resolution will fail.
To avoid this situation, dnsmasq should only restrict queries, but not
responses, to the given interface. A way to do this on Linux is with
the IP_UNICAST_IF and IPV6_UNICAST_IF socket options which were added
in kernel 3.4 and, respectively, glibc versions 2.16 and 2.26.
Reported-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
Signed-off-by: Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com>
Fix out-of-memory Dos vulnerability. An attacker which can
send malicious DNS queries to dnsmasq can trigger memory
allocations in the add_pseudoheader function
The allocated memory is never freed which leads to a DoS
through memory exhaustion. dnsmasq is vulnerable only
if one of the following option is specified:
--add-mac, --add-cpe-id or --add-subnet.
Fix DoS in DNS. Invalid boundary checks in the
add_pseudoheader function allows a memcpy call with negative
size An attacker which can send malicious DNS queries
to dnsmasq can trigger a DoS remotely.
dnsmasq is vulnerable only if one of the following option is
specified: --add-mac, --add-cpe-id or --add-subnet.
Fix information leak in DHCPv6. A crafted DHCPv6 packet can
cause dnsmasq to forward memory from outside the packet
buffer to a DHCPv6 server when acting as a relay.
Fix heap overflow in IPv6 router advertisement code.
This is a potentially serious security hole, as a
crafted RA request can overflow a buffer and crash or
control dnsmasq. Attacker must be on the local network.
Fix heap overflow in DNS code. This is a potentially serious
security hole. It allows an attacker who can make DNS
requests to dnsmasq, and who controls the contents of
a domain, which is thereby queried, to overflow
(by 2 bytes) a heap buffer and either crash, or
even take control of, dnsmasq.
If a DNS server replies REFUSED for a given DNS query in strict order mode
no failover to the next DNS server is triggered as the failover logic only
covers non strict mode.
As a result the client will be returned the REFUSED reply without first
falling back to the secondary DNS server(s).
Make failover support work as well for strict mode config in case REFUSED is
replied by deleting the strict order check and rely only on forwardall being
equal to 0 which is the case in non strict mode when a single server has been
contacted or when strict order mode has been configured.
Remove historic automatic inclusion of IDN support when
building internationalisation support. This doesn't
fit now there is a choice of IDN libraries. Be sure
to include either -DHAVE_IDN or _DHAVE_LIBIDN2 for
IDN support
This reverts commit 88a77a78ad.
A least one client has been found which breaks with this change. Since
the use-case is not clear, I'm reverting the change, at least for now.
