Ubuntu update for bind9



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
CVE-ID CVE-2023-2828
CVE-2023-2911
CWE-ID CWE-400
CWE-399
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU77612

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2828

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can cause the amount of memory used by a named resolver to go well beyond the configured max-cache-size limit. The effectiveness of the attack depends on a number of factors (e.g. query load, query patterns), but since the default value of the max-cache-size statement is 90%, in the worst case the attacker can exhaust all available memory on the host running named, leading to a denial-of-service condition.

Mitigation

Update the affected package bind9 to the latest version.

Vulnerable software versions

Ubuntu: 20.04 - 23.04

bind9 (Ubuntu package): before 1:9.18.12-1ubuntu1.1

CPE2.3 External links

http://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6183-1


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU77610

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2911

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application. If the recursive-clients quota is reached on a BIND 9 resolver configured with both stale-answer-enable yes; and stale-answer-client-timeout 0;, a sequence of serve-stale-related lookups could cause named to loop and terminate unexpectedly due to a stack overflow.

Mitigation

Update the affected package bind9 to the latest version.

Vulnerable software versions

Ubuntu: 20.04 - 23.04

bind9 (Ubuntu package): before 1:9.18.12-1ubuntu1.1

CPE2.3 External links

http://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6183-1


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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