BIND 9.6-ESV-R5rc1
Mark Andrews
marka at isc.org
Fri Jul 8 01:33:04 UTC 2011
Introduction
BIND 9.6-ESV-R5rc1 is the first release candidate of BIND 9.6-ESV-R5.
This document summarizes changes from BIND 9.6-ESV-R4 to BIND
9.6-ESV-R5rc1. Please see the CHANGES file in the source code release
for a complete list of all changes.
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New Features
9.6-ESV-R5rc1
* Added a tool able to generate malformed packets to allow testing of
how named handles them. [RT #24096]
Security Fixes
9.6-ESV-R5rc1
* Change #2912 (see CHANGES) exposed a latent bug in the DNS message
processing code that could allow certain UPDATE requests to crash
named. [RT #24777] [CVE-2011-2464]
* named, set up to be a caching resolver, is vulnerable to a user
querying a domain with very large resource record sets (RRSets)
when trying to negatively cache the response. Due to an off-by-one
error, caching the response could cause named to crash. [RT #24650]
[CVE-2011-1910]
Feature Changes
9.6-ESV-R5rc1
* Merged in the NetBSD ATF test framework (currently version 0.12)
for development of future unit tests. Use configure --with-atf to
build ATF internally or configure --with-atf=prefix to use an
external copy. [RT #23209]
* Added more verbose error reporting from DLZ LDAP. [RT #23402]
* Replaced compile time constant with STDTIME_ON_32BITS. [RT #23587]
Bug Fixes
9.6-ESV-R5rc1
* Improved the mechanism for flagging database entries as negative
cache records; the former method, RR type 0, could be ambiguous.
[RT #24777]
* During RFC5011 processing some journal write errors were not
detected. This could lead to managed-keys changes being committed
but not recorded in the journal files, causing potential
inconsistencies during later processing. [RT #20256]
* A potential NULL pointer deference in the DNS64 code could cause
named to terminate unexpectedly. [RT #20256]
* A state variable relating to DNSSEC could fail to be set during
some infrequently-executed code paths, allowing it to be used
whilst in an unitialized state during cache updates, with
unpredictable results. [RT #20256]
* A potential NULL pointer deference in DNSSEC signing code could
cause named to terminate unexpectedly [RT #20256]
* Several cosmetic code changes were made to silence warnings
generated by a static code analysis tool. [RT #20256]
* Cause named to terminate at startup or rndc reconfig reload to
fail, if a log file specified in the conf file isn't a plain file.
(RT #22771]
* After an external code review, a code cleanup was done. [RT #22521]
* named now forces the ADB cache time for glue related data to zero
instead of relying on TTL. This corrects problematic behavior in
cases where a server was authoritative for the A record of a
nameserver for a delegated zone and was queried to recursively
resolve records within that zone. [RT #22842]
* Fix the zonechecks system test to fail on error (warning in 9.6,
fatal in 9.7) to match behaviour for 9.4. [RT #22905]
* Fixed precedence order bug with NS and DNAME records if both are
present. (Also fixed timing of autosign test in 9.7+) [RT #23035]
* The secure zone update feature in named is based on the zone being
signed and configured for dynamic updates. A bug in the ACL
processing for "allow-update { none; };" resulted in a zone that is
supposed to be static being treated as a dynamic zone. Thus, named
would try to sign/re-sign that zone erroneously. [RT #23120]
* If a slave initiates a TSIG signed AXFR from the master and the
master fails to correctly TSIG sign the final message, the slave
would be left with the zone in an unclean state. named detected
this error too late and named would crash with an INSIST. The order
dependancy has been fixed. [RT #23254]
* If the server has an IPv6 address but does not have IPv6
connectivity to the internet, dig +trace could fail attempting to
use IPv6 addresses. [RT #23297]
* Changing TTL did not cause dnssec-signzone to generate new
signatures. [RT #23330]
* Have the validating resolver use RRSIG original TTL to compute
validated RRset and RRSIG TTL. [RT #23332]
* In "make test" bin/tests/resolver, hold the socket manager lock
while freeing the socket. [RT #23333]
* If named encountered a CNAME instead of a DS record when walking
the chain of trust down from the trust anchor, it incorrectly
stopped validating. [RT #23338]
* RRSIG records could have time stamps too far in the future. [RT
#23356]
* named stores cached data in an in-memory database and keeps track
of how recently the data is used with a heap. The heap is stored
within the cache's memory space. Under a sustained high query load
and with a small cache size, this could lead to the heap exhausting
the cache space. This would result in cache misses and SERVFAILs,
with named never releasing the cache memory the heap used up and
never recovering. This fix removes the heap into its own memory
space, preventing the heap from exhausting the cache space and
allowing named to recover gracefully when the high query load
abates. [RT #23371]
* If running on a powerpc CPU and with atomic operations enabled,
named could lock up. Added sync instructions to the end of atomic
operations. [RT #23469]
* If OpenSSL was built without engine support, named would have
compile errors and fail to build. [RT #23473]
* Handle isc_event_allocate failures in t_tasks test. [RT #23572]
* ixfr-from-differences {master|slave}; failed to select the
master/slave zones, resulting in on diff/journal file being
created. [RT #23580]
* If a DNAME substitution failed, named returned NOERROR. The correct
response should be YXDOMAIN. [RT #23591]
* Remove bin/tests/system/logfileconfig/ns1/named.conf and add
setup.sh in order to resolve changing named.conf issue. [RT #23687]
* NOTIFY messages were not being sent when generating a NSEC3 chain
incrementally. [RT #23702]
* Signatures for records at the zone apex could go stale due to an
incorrect timer setting. [RT #23769]
* The autosign tests attempted to open ports within reserved ranges.
Test now avoids those ports. [RT #23957]
* Clean up some cross-compiling issues and added two undocumented
configure options, --with-gost and --with-rlimtype, to allow
over-riding default settings (gost=no and rlimtype="long int") when
cross-compiling. [RT #24367]
* When trying sign with NSEC3, if dnssec-signzone couldn't find the
KSK, it would give an incorrect error "NSEC3 iterations too big for
weakest DNSKEY strength" rather than the correct "failed to find
keys at the zone apex: not found" [RT #24369]
* nsupdate could dump core on shutdown when using SIG(0) keys. [RT
#24604]
* Named could fail to validate zones list in a DLV that validated
insecure without using DLV and had DS records in the parent zone.
[RT #24631]
Known issues in this release
* "make test" will fail on OSX and possibly other operating systems.
The failure occurs in a new test to check for allow-query ACLs. The
failure is caused because the source address is not specified on
the dig commands issued in the test.
If running "make test" is part of your usual acceptance process,
please edit the file bin/tests/system/allow_query/test.sh and add
-b 10.53.0.2
to the DIGOPTS line.
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible.
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