QID 15144

Date Published: 2023-07-10

QID 15144: ISC BIND Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability

ISC BIND (Berkley Internet Domain Name) is an implementation of DNS protocols.

By exploiting this flaw, an attacker can cause the amount of memory used by a named resolver to go well beyond the configured max-cache-size limit.

BIND Affected versions:
9.11.0 to 9.16.41
9.18.0 to 9.18.15
9.19.0 to 9.19.13
BIND Supported Preview Edition 9.11.3-S1 to 9.16.41-S1
9.18.11-S1 to 9.18.15-S1
Note: Detection made practice as it is banner based only QID Detection Logic:
This unauthenticated check detects vulnerable systems by fetching the version information from the BIND service.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to denial-of-service condition.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.8 severity.
  • Solution
    Customers are advised to upgrade latest release of ISC BIND.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 15144

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    cve-2023-2828 URL Logo kb.isc.org/v1/docs/cve-2023-2828
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