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Update Unbound from 1.6.3 to 1.6.8 #603

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@pmenzel pmenzel commented Feb 5, 2018

This fixes a security issue related to DANE.

After the update, the service needs to be restarted with systemctl restart unbound.service.

Tested on keineahnung.

Am 05.02.2018 um 17:29 schrieb Viktor Dukhovni:
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> If you're using unbound as your local DNSSEC-validating
> resolver and have enabled DANE, an issue is resolved in
> unbound 1.6.8 where NSEC records for wildcards could be
> misused for invalid denial-of-existence proofs.  See:
>
>    https://medium.com/nlnetlabs/the-peculiar-case-of-nsec-processing-using-expanded-wildcard-records-ae8285f236be
>    https://unbound.net/downloads/CVE-2017-15105.txt
>
> The first article mentions that the same issue affected
> PowerDNS and Dnsmasq.  So if you're using one of those,
> you might also need to update.  While Google's public
> DNS was also affected, this is out of scope for DANE,
> as you get little security from relying on the AD bit
> from remote resolvers.
@pmenzel pmenzel changed the title Update unbound from 1.6.3 to 1.6.8 Update Unbound from 1.6.3 to 1.6.8 Feb 5, 2018
@donald donald merged commit c12e144 into master Feb 7, 2018
@donald donald deleted the update-unbound-from-1.6.3-to-1.6.8 branch February 14, 2018 15:05
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