Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting bind package, versions [,9.18.33)[9.20.0, 9.20.5)[9.21.0, 9.21.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BIND-8685109
  • published2 Feb 2025
  • disclosed31 Jan 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-12705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bind to version 9.18.33, 9.20.5, 9.21.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling that allows attackers to crash a server by sending large amounts of HTTP/2 traffic to a resolver over the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol, if it is enabled.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be avoided by disabling DoH.

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