CVE-2023-2911
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-21 16:26
Modified
2024-08-02 06:41
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Exceeding the recursive-clients quota may cause named to terminate unexpectedly when stale-answer-client-timeout is set to 0
References
security-officer@isc.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/21/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-2911Vendor Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SEFCEVCTYEMKTWA7V7EYPI5YQQ4JWDLI/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3K6AJK7RRSR53HRF5GGKPA6PDUDWOD2/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0010/Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5439Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
ISCBIND 9
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