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CVE-2024-8418

A flaw was found in Aardvark-dns, which is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to the serial processing of TCP DNS queries. An attacker can exploit this flaw by keeping a TCP connection open indefinitely, causing the server to become unresponsive and resulting in other DNS queries timing out. This issue prevents legitimate users from accessing DNS services, thereby disrupting normal operations and causing service downtime.

Published

2024-09-04T15:15:15.773

Last Modified

2025-05-13T15:15:52.380

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-400
Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	containers	aardvark-dns	1.12.0	Yes
Application	containers	aardvark-dns	1.12.1	Yes

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7094 ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8418 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309683 Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/issues/500 Exploit, Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/pull/503 Issue Tracking ([email protected])