Bind vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages

• bind9 - Internet Domain Name Server

Details

Shoham Danino, Anat Bremler-Barr, Yehuda Afek, and Yuval Shavitt discovered
that Bind incorrectly handled parsing large DNS messages. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, leading
to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-4408)

Elias Heftrig, Haya Schulmann, Niklas Vogel, and Michael Waidner discovered
that Bind icorrectly handled validating DNSSEC messages. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, leading
to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-50387)

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled preparing an NSEC3 closest
encloser proof. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Bind to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-50868)

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled reverse zone queries when
nxdomain-redirect is enabled. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Bind to crash, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-5517)

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain specific recursive
query patterns. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Bind to consume memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-6516)

Bind has been updated to 9.6.48. In addition to security fixes, the updated
packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible
changes.

Please see the following for more information:
<https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.16.48/doc/arm/html/notes.html&gt;