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FS#4011 - TCP queries to dnsmasq can cause OOM and DoS attack #9003

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openwrt-bot opened this issue Sep 6, 2021 · 0 comments
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FS#4011 - TCP queries to dnsmasq can cause OOM and DoS attack #9003

openwrt-bot opened this issue Sep 6, 2021 · 0 comments
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brianjmurrell:

Supply the following if possible:

  • Device problem occurs on tplink,tl-wdr4300-v1
  • Software versions of OpenWrt/LEDE release, packages, etc. 19.07.8
  • Steps to reproduce
    Use a tool like netcat to open many (i.e 20+) TCP connections to port 53, simulating TCP dns queries
    Observe how dnsmasq forks for each connection
    Observe how at some point enough dnsmasq children are running that the kernel starts OOMing

This is a quick/easy demonstration on how simply an OpenWRT router can be DoS attacked.

There is a hard coded MAX_PROCS which defaults to 20. This clearly is too high for resource constrained systems like OpenWRT routers.

There is a discussion of this problem on the dnsmasq ML @ https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2021q1/014907.html which includes a patch to make MAX_PROCS a run-time tunable. This could be used by OpenWRT to scale up/down the MAX_PROCS value based on the size of system it's running on.

It could/should be user-overridable in case he/she knows better what the value should be than any attempt by OpenWRT to scale on a given router.

@aparcar aparcar added the release/19.07 pull request/issue targeted (also) for OpenWrt 19.07 release label Feb 22, 2022
@ynezz ynezz added core packages pull request/issue for core (in-tree) packages feature request issue report with feature request and removed release/19.07 pull request/issue targeted (also) for OpenWrt 19.07 release labels May 24, 2022
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