Technitium DNS Server up to 9.x CNAME denial of service

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A vulnerability has been found in Technitium DNS Server up to 9.x and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component CNAME Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Technitium DNS Server before 10.0 allows a self-CNAME denial-of-service attack in which a CNAME loop causes an answer to contain hundreds of records.

The weakness was disclosed 01/13/2023. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-48256 since 01/13/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 10.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

The entries VDB-13932, VDB-13933, VDB-18557 and VDB-105710 are pretty similar.

Productinfo

Vendor

Technitium

Name

DNS Server

Version

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: DNS Server 10.0

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02/05/2023 +23 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-48256 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 01/13/2023 10:18
Updated: 02/05/2023 17:53
Changes: 01/13/2023 10:18 (41), 02/05/2023 17:53 (11)
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