CoreDNS: rewrite-plugin EDNS0 response-revert nil-pointer panic (remote DoS) when a downstream plugin returns a response with no OPT record
Description
CoreDNS is a DNS server written in Go. Prior to 1.14.5, the CoreDNS rewrite plugin supports edns0 rewrite rules with an optional revert flag, and two response rules, edns0SetResponseRule and edns0ReplaceResponseRule[T] in plugin/rewrite/edns0.go, call res.IsEdns0() and immediately dereference the returned *dns.OPT without a nil check when a downstream plugin returns a response with no OPT record. A remote, unauthenticated client can send a single ordinary DNS query matching a rewrite edns0 <local|nsid|subnet> <set|append|replace> ... revert rule, causing ResponseReverter in plugin/rewrite/reverter.go to panic, return SERVFAIL, and degrade availability, or crash the CoreDNS process if the debug directive disables recovery. This issue is fixed in version 1.14.5.
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References
4- github.com/coredns/coredns/commit/fc447d0658b093edc8cd29a6b171216a44a644c2mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/8190mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/coredns/coredns/releases/tag/v1.14.5mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/coredns/coredns/security/advisories/GHSA-9pmm-cxww-rrr7mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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