CVE-2023-4408 (GCVE-0-2023-4408)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-13 14:04 – Updated: 2025-03-14 16:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Parsing large DNS messages may cause excessive CPU load
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-21 20:37 UTC
CWE
- CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
1 product
Date Public
2024-02-13 00:00
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