Buffer Overflow Affecting bind package, versions [9.16.33,9.16.42)[9.18.7,9.18.16)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BIND-9673525
  • published22 Jun 2023
  • disclosed22 Jun 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-2911  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bind to version 9.16.42, 9.18.16 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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