- Fix to limit NSEC and NSEC3 TTL when aggressive nsec is

  enabled (RFC9077).

doc/Changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+10 September 2024: Wouter
+	- Fix to limit NSEC and NSEC3 TTL when aggressive nsec is
+	  enabled (RFC9077).
+
 6 September 2024: Yorgos
 	- Fix alloc-size and calloc-transposed-args compiler warnings.
 	- Fix comment to not trigger doxygen unknown command.

iterator/iterator.c

@@ -367,6 +367,48 @@ error_response_cache(struct module_qstate* qstate, int id, int rcode)
 	return error_response(qstate, id, rcode);
 }
 
+/** limit NSEC and NSEC3 TTL in response, RFC9077 */
+static void
+limit_nsec_ttl(struct dns_msg* msg)
+{
+	size_t i;
+	int found = 0;
+	time_t soa_ttl = 0;
+	/* Limit the NSEC and NSEC3 TTL values to the SOA TTL and SOA minimum
+	 * TTL. That has already been applied to the SOA record ttl. */
+	for(i=0; i<msg->rep->rrset_count; i++) {
+		struct ub_packed_rrset_key* s = msg->rep->rrsets[i];
+		if(ntohs(s->rk.type) == LDNS_RR_TYPE_SOA) {
+			struct packed_rrset_data* soadata = (struct packed_rrset_data*)s->entry.data;
+			found = 1;
+			soa_ttl = soadata->ttl;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	if(!found)
+		return;
+	for(i=0; i<msg->rep->rrset_count; i++) {
+		struct ub_packed_rrset_key* s = msg->rep->rrsets[i];
+		if(ntohs(s->rk.type) == LDNS_RR_TYPE_NSEC ||
+			ntohs(s->rk.type) == LDNS_RR_TYPE_NSEC3) {
+			struct packed_rrset_data* data = (struct packed_rrset_data*)s->entry.data;
+			/* Limit the negative TTL. */
+			if(data->ttl > soa_ttl) {
+				if(verbosity >= VERB_ALGO) {
+					char buf[256];
+					snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf),
+						"limiting TTL %d of %s record to the SOA TTL of %d for",
+						(int)data->ttl, ((ntohs(s->rk.type) == LDNS_RR_TYPE_NSEC)?"NSEC":"NSEC3"), (int)soa_ttl);
+					log_nametypeclass(VERB_ALGO, buf,
+						s->rk.dname, ntohs(s->rk.type),
+						ntohs(s->rk.rrset_class));
+				}
+				data->ttl = soa_ttl;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 /** check if prepend item is duplicate item */
 static int
 prepend_is_duplicate(struct ub_packed_rrset_key** sets, size_t to,
@@ -4366,7 +4408,10 @@ process_response(struct module_qstate* qstate, struct iter_qstate* iq,
 	if(verbosity >= VERB_ALGO)
 		log_dns_msg("incoming scrubbed packet:", &iq->response->qinfo, 
 			iq->response->rep);
-
+
+	if(qstate->env->cfg->aggressive_nsec) {
+		limit_nsec_ttl(iq->response);
+	}
 	if(event == module_event_capsfail || iq->caps_fallback) {
 		if(qstate->env->cfg->qname_minimisation &&
 			iq->minimisation_state != DONOT_MINIMISE_STATE) {