RHSA-2020:4181 — Security Advisory

An update for unbound is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support.

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.

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.