Topic

An update for unbound is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: amplification of an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target (CVE-2020-12662)
• unbound: infinite loop via malformed DNS answers received from upstream servers (CVE-2020-12663)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1837597 - CVE-2020-12662 unbound: amplification of an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target
• BZ - 1837604 - CVE-2020-12663 unbound: infinite loop via malformed DNS answers received from upstream servers

CVEs

• CVE-2020-12662
• CVE-2020-12663

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important