In some cases, parsing of the DNS response is broken and the response is
considered as invalid, despite being valid.
The current patch fixes this issue. It's a temporary solution until I
rework the response parsing to store the response buffer into a real DNS
packet structure.
Jan A. Bruder reported that some very specific hostnames on server
lines were causing haproxy to crash on startup. Given that hist
backtrace showed some heap corruption, it was obvious there was an
overflow somewhere. The bug in fact is a typo in dns_str_to_dn_label()
which mistakenly copies one extra byte from the host name into the
output value, thus effectively corrupting the structure.
The bug triggers while parsing the next server of similar length
after the corruption, which generally triggers at config time but
could theorically crash at any moment during runtime depending on
what malloc sizes are needed next. This is why it's tagged major.
No backport is needed, this bug was introduced in 1.6-dev2.
Implementation of a DNS client in HAProxy to perform name resolution to
IP addresses.
It relies on the freshly created UDP client to perform the DNS
resolution. For now, all UDP socket calls are performed in the
DNS layer, but this might change later when the protocols are
extended to be more suited to datagram mode.
A new section called 'resolvers' is introduced thanks to this patch. It
is used to describe DNS servers IP address and also many parameters.
