vulnerability / NVI-00014139 / Revision 1
CoreDNS: Unauthenticated memory exhaustion in custom transports
GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for github.com/coredns/coredns. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.
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01 / Meaning
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7.5 high
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02 / Applicability
The affected context
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github.com/coredns/coredns
source listed<= 1.14.6
### Summary CoreDNS parses attacker-controlled DNS section counts before validating them on DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH and DoH3), DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ), and DNS-over-gRPC listeners. An unauthenticated client can use DNS name compression to make one 65,533-byte request allocate more than 10 MiB while it is unpacked. Concurrent requests can exhaust memory and terminate CoreDNS. ### Details The affected request paths call `dns.Msg.Unpack` directly: - DoH POST and GET decoding. DoH3 uses the same decoder. - DoQ stream handling. - DNS-over-gRPC query handling. This differs from the miekg/dns UDP and TCP server. Its `serveDNS` path decodes the fixed 12-byte header and invokes [`DefaultMsgAcceptFunc`](https://github.com/miekg/dns/blob/v1.1.
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05 / Provenance
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- GHSA-mrg3-qvqr-jw29 ↗
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