Resource Exhaustion Affecting bind-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-BINDDOC-11367789
  • published2 Aug 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2023

Introduced: 1 Jan 2023

CVE-2023-4408  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 bind-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind-doc package and not the bind-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 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 Base Scores

version 3.1