CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-2911

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
2.45%

84th percentile - higher than 84% of all known CVEs

Summary

On a BIND 9 resolver configured with both stale-answer-enable yes and stale-answer-client-timeout 0, reaching the recursive-clients quota can cause named to loop and terminate unexpectedly due to a stack overflow.

Risk Assessment

A remote attacker can crash the DNS resolver, causing denial of service for clients relying on that server.

Recommendation

Update BIND 9 to a fixed version (outside 9.16.33–9.16.41, 9.18.7–9.18.15 and corresponding S1 versions) or adjust the serve-stale configuration.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS