Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.48%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 26

Description

This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with a value greater than zero. If the resolver receives many queries that require recursion, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of clients that are waiting for recursion to complete. If there are sufficient clients already waiting when a new client query is received so that it is necessary to SERVFAIL the longest waiting client (see

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDisc/bind9.16.129.16.37+8
Alpinebind< 9.16.37-r0+9
Debianbind9< 1:9.16.37-1~deb11u1+3
CVEListV5isc/bind_99.16.129.16.36+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
CVE-2022-3924: This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with2023-01-26
GHSA
GHSA-29px-hvx8-j7xf: This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with2023-01-26
OSV
CVE-2022-3924: This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with2023-01-26
CVEList
named configured to answer from stale cache may terminate unexpectedly at recursive-clients soft quota2023-01-25
OSV
bind9 vulnerabilities2023-01-25

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Bind vulnerabilities2023-01-25
Red Hat
bind: sending specific queries to the resolver may cause a DoS2023-01-25
Microsoft
named configured to answer from stale cache may terminate unexpectedly at recursive-clients soft quota2023-01-10
Debian
CVE-2022-3924: bind9 - This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also...2022