[CVE-2022-2795] Processing large delegations may severely degrade resolver performance

CVE-specific actions

• Assign a CVE identifier
• Determine CVSS score
• Determine the range of BIND versions affected (including the Subscription Edition)
• Determine whether workarounds for the problem exists
• Create a draft of the security advisory and put the information above in there
• Prepare a detailed description of the problem which should include the following by default:
  • instructions for reproducing the problem (a system test is good enough)
  • explanation of code flow which triggers the problem (a system test is not good enough)
• Prepare a private merge request containing the following items in separate commits:
  • a test for the issue (may be moved to a separate merge request for deferred merging)
  • a fix for the issue
  • documentation updates (<code>CHANGES</code>, release notes, anything else applicable)
• Ensure the merge request from the previous step is reviewed by SWENG staff and has no outstanding discussions
• Ensure the documentation changes introduced by the merge request addressing the problem are reviewed by Support and Marketing staff
• Prepare backports of the merge request addressing the problem for all affected (and still maintained) BIND branches (backporting might affect the issue's scope and/or description)
• Prepare a standalone patch for the last stable release of each affected (and still maintained) BIND branch

Release-specific actions

• Create/update the private issue containing links to fixes & reproducers for all CVEs fixed in a given release cycle
• Reserve a block of CHANGES placeholders once the complete set of vulnerabilities fixed in a given release cycle is determined
• Ensure the merge requests containing CVE fixes are merged into security-* branches in CVE identifier order

Post-disclosure actions

• Merge a regression test reproducing the bug into all affected (and still maintained) BIND branches

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Paper

NXRedirect_-_Attack_Complexity_DDoS_attack_on_DNS_Recursive_Resolvers_WithNames.pdfs