DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19331

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-19331
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19331.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19331
Upstream
Published
2019-12-16T16:15:11Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:39Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

knot-resolver before version 4.3.0 is vulnerable to denial of service through high CPU utilization. DNS replies with very many resource records might be processed very inefficiently, in extreme cases taking even several CPU seconds for each such uncached message. For example, a few thousand A records can be squashed into one DNS message (limit is 64kB).

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / knot-resolver

Package

Name
knot-resolver
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/knot-resolver?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / knot-resolver

Package

Name
knot-resolver
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/knot-resolver?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / knot-resolver

Package

Name
knot-resolver
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/knot-resolver?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / knot-resolver

Package

Name
knot-resolver
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/knot-resolver?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}