CVE-2023-4408 Affecting bind-lite-devel package, versions <32:9.11.36-14.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX8-BINDLITEDEVEL-6611033
  • published12 Apr 2024
  • disclosed11 Apr 2024

Introduced: 11 Apr 2024

CVE-2023-4408  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:8 bind-lite-devel to version 32:9.11.36-14.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2024:3271.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind-lite-devel package and not the bind-lite-devel package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The DNS message parsing code in named includes a section whose computational complexity is overly high. It does not cause problems for typical DNS traffic, but crafted queries and responses may cause excessive CPU load on the affected named instance by exploiting this flaw. This issue affects both authoritative servers and recursive resolvers. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.0.0 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through 9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.9.3-S1 through 9.11.37-S1, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1.

CVSS Scores

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