Vulnerability CVE-2024-8418


Published: 2024-09-04

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.

Type:

CWE-400

(Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8418
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309683
https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/issues/500
https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/pull/503

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