GitHub user rhtyd opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1663
CLOUDSTACK-6432: Prevent DNS reflection attacks At least in SG zones DNS on the VR is publicly accessible and as such susceptible to DNS amplification/reflection attacks. This fixes it as per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6432 to only allow IPs from the guest cidr to send DNS requests on port 53. Due to repository commit issues I've created this PR, based on #1653 . You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/shapeblue/cloudstack 4.9-dnsreflection-attack Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1663.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1663 ---- commit 5adacc9b6f1b7b9ae53d35aa78fc8f7cd0d2273e Author: NuxRo <n...@li.nux.ro> Date: 2016-08-22T09:31:41Z CLOUDSTACK-6432: Prevent DNS reflection attacks At least in SG zones DNS on the VR is publicly accessible and as such susceptible to DNS amplification/reflection attacks. This fixes it as per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6432 to only allow IPs from the guest cidr to send DNS requests on port 53. Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---