Re: [dns-wg] New on RIPE Labs: NXNSAttack: Upgrade Resolvers to Stop New Kind of Random Subdomain Attack

2020-05-20 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Hi Geoff On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 05:49:43AM +1000, Geoff Huston wrote: > This is not a “newly discovered vulnerability. This was presented at DNS OARC > 21 by Florian Maury > in 2015 > https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/21/contributions/301/attachments/272/492/slides.pdf, > and also details the f

Re: [dns-wg] New on RIPE Labs: NXNSAttack: Upgrade Resolvers to Stop New Kind of Random Subdomain Attack

2020-05-20 Thread Geoff Huston
This is not a “newly discovered vulnerability. This was presented at DNS OARC 21 by Florian Maury in 2015 https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/21/contributions/301/attachments/272/492/slides.pdf, and also details the fixes applied to resolvers at the time. As Florian also points out the generic vul

[dns-wg] New on RIPE Labs: NXNSAttack: Upgrade Resolvers to Stop New Kind of Random Subdomain Attack

2020-05-20 Thread Mirjam Kuehne
Dear colleagues, This article by Petr Špaček of CZ.NIC describes a newly discovered DNS protocol vulnerability that affects all recursive DNS resolvers. NXNSAttack allows the execution of random subdomain attacks using the DNS delegation mechanism, resulting in a big packet amplification factor.