CVE-2023-4236: high-severity vulnerability in ISC BIND 9
named may terminate unexpectedly under high DNS-over-TLS query load
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 2.2%
A flaw in the networking code handling DNS-over-TLS queries may cause `named` to terminate unexpectedly due to an assertion failure. This happens when internal data structures are incorrectly reused under significant DNS-over-TLS query load.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.0 through 9.18.18 and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.18-S1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
ISC · BIND 9Related CVEs — ISC BIND 9
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2018-5740HIGHA flaw in the "deny-answer-aliases" feature can cause an assertion failure in namedEPSS 60.2%CVE-2022-3736HIGHnamed configured to answer from stale cache may terminate unexpectedly while processing RRSIG queriesEPSS 48.4%CVE-2017-3145HIGHImproper fetch cleanup sequencing in the resolver can cause named to crashEPSS 27.7%CVE-2022-3488HIGHnamed may terminate unexpectedly when processing ECS options in repeated responses to iterative queriesEPSS 19.0%CVE-2024-12705HIGHDNS-over-HTTPS implementation suffers from multiple issues under heavy query loadEPSS 18.6%CVE-2017-3143HIGHAn error in TSIG authentication can permit unauthorized dynamic updatesEPSS 18.2%
References
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-4236https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IPJLLTJCSDJJII7IIZPLTBQNWP7MZH7F/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U35OARLQCPMVCBBPHWBXY5M6XJLD2TZ5/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSK5V4W4OHPM3JTJGWAQD6CZW7SFD75B/https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0004/https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5504http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/20/2