Unbound: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201904-03

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Unbound, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Affected packages

net-dns/unbound on all architectures
Affected versions < 1.8.3
Unaffected versions >= 1.8.3

Background

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Unbound. Please review the referenced bugs for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced bugs for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Unbound users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/unbound-1.8.3"
 

References

Release date
April 02, 2019

Latest revision
April 02, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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