When a record is defined locally, eg an A record for one.two.example then
we already know that if we forward, eg an AAAA query for one.two.example,
and get back NXDOMAIN, then we need to alter that to NODATA. This is handled
by check_for_local_domain(). But, if we forward two.example, because
one.two.example exists, then the answer to two.example should also be
a NODATA.
For most local records this is easy, just to substring matching.
for A, AAAA and CNAME records that are in the cache, it's more difficult.
The cache has no efficient way to find such records. The fix is to
insert empty (none of F_IPV4, F_IPV6 F_CNAME set) records for each
non-terminal.
The same considerations apply in auth mode, and the same basic mechanism
is used there too.
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.
The current logic is naive in the case that there is more than
one RRset in an answer (Typically, when a non-CNAME query is answered
by one or more CNAME RRs, and then then an answer RRset.)
If all the RRsets validate, then they are cached and marked as validated,
but if any RRset doesn't validate, then the AD flag is not set (good) and
ALL the RRsets are cached marked as not validated.
This breaks when, eg, the answer contains a validated CNAME, pointing
to a non-validated answer. A subsequent query for the CNAME without do
will get an answer with the AD flag wrongly reset, and worse, the same
query with do will get a cached answer without RRSIGS, rather than
being forwarded.
The code now records the validation of individual RRsets and that
is used to correctly set the "validated" bits in the cache entries.
Further fix to 0549c73b7e
Handles case when RR name is not a pointer to the question,
only occurs for some auth-mode replies, therefore not
detected by fuzzing (?)
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.
Some consider it good practice to obscure software version numbers to
clients. Compiling with -DNO_ID removes the *.bind info structure.
This includes: version, author, copyright, cachesize, cache insertions,
evictions, misses & hits, auth & servers.
The list of exceptions to being able to locally answer
cached data for validated records when DNSSEC data is requested
was getting too long, so don't ever do that. This means
that the cache no longer has to hold RRSIGS and allows
us to lose lots of code. Note that cached validated
answers are still returned as long as do=0
Fix off-by-one in code which checks for over-long domain names
in received DNS packets. This enables buffer overflow attacks
which can certainly crash dnsmasq and may allow for arbitrary
code execution. The problem was introduced in commit b8f16556d,
release 2.73rc6, so has not escaped into any stable release.
Note that the off-by-one was in the label length determination,
so the buffer can be overflowed by as many bytes as there are
labels in the name - ie, many.
Thanks to Ron Bowes, who used lcmatuf's afl-fuzz tool to find
the problem.
