Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bind9  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-BIND9-3027857
  • published21 Sept 2022
  • disclosed21 Sept 2022

Introduced: 21 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-2906  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind9 package and not the bind9 package as distributed by Debian.

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.