SB2023100615 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Symphony
Published: October 6, 2023
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3488)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of repeated responses to the same query, where both responses contain ECS pseudo-options, however the first is incorrect and gets rejected by the resolver. A remote attacker controlling a malicious nameserver can respond with two responses in
quick succession, each with a "CLIENT-SUBNET" pseudo-option and crash the server.
2) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2911)
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.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2829)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A named instance configured to run as a DNSSEC-validating recursive resolver with the Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated Cache (RFC 8198) option (synth-from-dnssec) enabled can be remotely terminated using a zone with a malformed NSEC record.
4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2828)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.