Security
Headlines
HeadlinesLatestCVEs

Headline

ISC Releases Security Patches for New BIND DNS Software Vulnerabilities

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. “A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to potentially cause denial-of-service conditions and system failures,” the U.S. Cybersecurity

The Hacker News
#vulnerability#web#dos#auth#The Hacker News

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

“A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to potentially cause denial-of-service conditions and system failures,” the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in an advisory released Friday.

The open source software is used by major financial firms, national and international carriers, internet service providers (ISPs), retailers, manufacturers, educational institutions, and government entities, according to its website.

All four flaws reside in named, a BIND9 service that functions as an authoritative nameserver for a fixed set of DNS zones or as a recursive resolver for clients on a local network.

The list of the bugs, which are rated 7.5 on the CVSS scoring system, is as follows -

  • CVE-2022-3094 - An UPDATE message flood may cause named to exhaust all available memory
  • CVE-2022-3488 - BIND Supported Preview Edition named may terminate unexpectedly when processing ECS options in repeated responses to iterative queries
  • CVE-2022-3736 - named configured to answer from stale cache may terminate unexpectedly while processing RRSIG queries
  • CVE-2022-3924 - named configured to answer from stale cache may terminate unexpectedly at recursive-clients soft quota

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities could cause the named service to crash or exhaust available memory on a target server.

The issues affect versions 9.16.0 to 9.16.36, 9.18.0 to 9.18.10, 9.19.0 to 9.19.8, and 9.16.8-S1 to 9.16.36-S1. CVE-2022-3488 also impacts BIND Supported Preview Edition versions 9.11.4-S1 to 9.11.37-S1. They have been resolved in versions 9.16.37, 9.18.11, 9.19.9, and 9.16.37-S1.

Although there is no evidence that any of these vulnerabilities are being actively exploited, users are recommended to upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible to mitigate potential threats.

Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.

Related news

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7177-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7177-01 - An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3742-02

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3742-02 - Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is software-defined storage integrated with and optimized for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is a highly scalable, production-grade persistent storage for stateful applications running in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Issues addressed include bypass, denial of service, and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.

CVE-2023-2911: CVE-2023-2911

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. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.33 through 9.16.41, 9.18.7 through 9.18.15, 9.16.33-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.

RHSA-2023:3742: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.13.0 security and bug fix update

Updated images that include numerous enhancements, security, and bug fixes are now available in Red Hat Container Registry for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.13.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2020-16250: A flaw was found in Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”). In the affected versions of Vault, with the AWS Auth Method configured and under certain circumstances, the values relied upon by Vault to validate AWS IAM ident...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2792-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2792-01 - The Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server ; a resolver library ; and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

RHSA-2023:2792: Red Hat Security Advisory: bind9.16 security and bug fix update

An update for bind9.16 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-2795: A flaw was found in bind. When flooding the target resolver with special queries, an attacker can significantly impair the resolver's performance, effectively denying legitimate clients access to the DNS resolution service. * CVE-2022-3094: A flaw was found in Bind, where sending a flood of dynamic DNS updates may cause named to allocate large am...

RHSA-2023:2261: Red Hat Security Advisory: bind security and bug fix update

An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-2795: A flaw was found in bind. When flooding the target resolver with special queries, an attacker can significantly impair the resolver's performance, effectively denying legitimate clients access to the DNS resolution service. * CVE-2022-3094: A flaw was found in Bind, where sending a flood of dynamic DNS updates may cause named to allocate large amount...

Debian Security Advisory 5329-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5329-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in BIND, a DNS server implementation, which may result in denial of service against named.

Debian Security Advisory 5329-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5329-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in BIND, a DNS server implementation, which may result in denial of service against named.

Debian Security Advisory 5329-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5329-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in BIND, a DNS server implementation, which may result in denial of service against named.

CVE-2022-3924: CVE-2022-3924: named configured to answer from stale cache may termina

This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with a value greater than zero. If the resolver receives many queries that require recursion, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of clients that are waiting for recursion to complete. If there are sufficient clients already waiting when a new client query is received so that it is necessary to SERVFAIL the longest waiting client (see BIND 9 ARM `recursive-clients` limit and soft quota), then it is possible for a race to occur between providing a stale answer to this older client and sending an early timeout SERVFAIL, which may cause an assertion failure. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.36, 9.18.0 through 9.18.10, 9.19.0 through 9.19.8, and 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.36-S1.

CVE-2022-3488: CVE-2022-3488: BIND Supported Preview Edition named may terminate unex

Processing of repeated responses to the same query, where both responses contain ECS pseudo-options, but where the first is broken in some way, can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure. 'Broken' in this context is anything that would cause the resolver to reject the query response, such as a mismatch between query and answer name. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.4-S1 through 9.11.37-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.36-S1.

CVE-2022-3736: CVE-2022-3736: named configured to answer from stale cache may termina

BIND 9 resolver can crash when stale cache and stale answers are enabled, option `stale-answer-client-timeout` is set to a positive integer, and the resolver receives an RRSIG query. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.36, 9.18.0 through 9.18.10, 9.19.0 through 9.19.8, and 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.36-S1.

CVE-2022-3094: CVE-2022-3094: An UPDATE message flood may cause named to exhaust all

Sending a flood of dynamic DNS updates may cause `named` to allocate large amounts of memory. This, in turn, may cause `named` to exit due to a lack of free memory. We are not aware of any cases where this has been exploited. Memory is allocated prior to the checking of access permissions (ACLs) and is retained during the processing of a dynamic update from a client whose access credentials are accepted. Memory allocated to clients that are not permitted to send updates is released immediately upon rejection. The scope of this vulnerability is limited therefore to trusted clients who are permitted to make dynamic zone changes. If a dynamic update is REFUSED, memory will be released again very quickly. Therefore it is only likely to be possible to degrade or stop `named` by sending a flood of unaccepted dynamic updates comparable in magnitude to a query flood intended to achieve the same detrimental outcome. BIND 9.11 and earlier branches are also affected, but through exhaustion of int...

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5827-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 5827-1 - Rob Schulhof discovered that Bind incorrectly handled a large number of UPDATE messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. Borja Marcos discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain RRSIG queries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5827-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 5827-1 - Rob Schulhof discovered that Bind incorrectly handled a large number of UPDATE messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. Borja Marcos discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain RRSIG queries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5827-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 5827-1 - Rob Schulhof discovered that Bind incorrectly handled a large number of UPDATE messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. Borja Marcos discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain RRSIG queries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.