ods-signerd can be crashed remotely

I've been observing that ods-signerd from OpenDNSSEC 1.4.9 is
prone to occasionally crash. After much back and forth with how
to get a crash dump for the process, I finally have the remains
of a deceased process to dissect, and this one looks like this:

(gdb) where
#0 0x00007f7ff783627a in ldns_rr_get_class () from /usr/pkg/lib/libldns.so.1
#1 0x000000000042bfcf in query_process ()
#2 0x000000000042f182 in sock_handle_udp ()
#3 0x000000000042a51b in netio_dispatch ()
#4 0x000000000040d9d9 in dnshandler_start ()
#5 0x000000000040e1ae in dnshandler_thread_start ()
#6 0x00007f7ff560b3ae in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
#7 0x00007f7ff6075e90 in ___lwp_park50 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#8 0x00007f7ff3800000 in ?? ()
#9 0x00007f7ff7ff1540 in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000111110001 in ?? ()
#11 0x0000000033330003 in ?? ()
#12 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) i reg
rax 0x0 0
rbx 0x7f7ff7b42040 140187593351232
rcx 0x0 0
rdx 0x7f7ff3400000 140187518631936
rsi 0x0 0
rdi 0x0 0
rbp 0x7f7ff7b14100 0x7f7ff7b14100
rsp 0x7f7ff37ff998 0x7f7ff37ff998
r8 0x7f7fb9a03060 140186551857248
r9 0x7f7ff7b420c8 140187593351368
r10 0x0 0
r11 0x246 582
r12 0x0 0
r13 0x7f7ff7b42048 140187593351240
r14 0x20109 131337
r15 0x1 1
rip 0x7f7ff783627a 0x7f7ff783627a <ldns_rr_get_class>
eflags 0x10246 [ PF ZF IF RF ]
cs 0x1f 31
ss 0x17 23
ds 0x17 23
es 0x17 23
fs 0x0 0
gs 0x0 0
(gdb) x/i 0x7f7ff783627a
=> 0x7f7ff783627a <ldns_rr_get_class>: mov 0x1c(%rdi),%eax
(gdb) x/3i ldns_rr_get_class
=> 0x7f7ff783627a <ldns_rr_get_class>: mov 0x1c(%rdi),%eax
0x7f7ff783627d <ldns_rr_get_class+3>: retq
0x7f7ff783627e <ldns_rr_list_rr_count>: test %rdi,%rdi
(gdb)

Looking at the source, it seems that this is a packet which
passes the checks in ldns_wire2pkt(), but which has an empty
RRset, so that ldns_rr_list_rr() returns NULL

In the disassembly of query_process(), the call to
ldns_rr_get_class() occurs before ldns_rr_owner(), explaining why
the former and not the latter crashed in

/* we can just lookup the zone, because we will only handle SOA queries,
zone transfers, updates and notifies */
q->zone = zonelist_lookup_zone_by_dname(e->zonelist, ldns_rr_owner(rr),
ldns_rr_get_class(rr));

"DoS with crafted packet"?

Regards,

Håvard